Archive

10 Jun 2008

Update: landlord and tenant

Milton McIntosh reviews the latest cases on service charges, rent reviews, alienation, forfeiture and business teancies

10 Jun 2008

Inferring discrimination from a failure to reply to questionnaires

Tribunals should not automatically draw inferences that an employer's failure to respond to a discrimination questionnaire indicates guilt. David Massarella reports

10 Jun 2008

A decade on from reform

The changes to the civil procedure rules following the Woolf report were implemented ten years ago, but have they delivered the intended fairer results at lower costs and speedier justice, asks David Greene

10 Jun 2008

REACH's impact on personal injury

New requirements under European chemicals legislation will have major implications for safety lawyers, says Victoria Handley

10 Jun 2008

Life in crime

Beware unmeritorious appeals, says Lucy Corrin as she warns that poor legal advice will result in court orders that time served in custody will not count

10 Jun 2008

Face-to-face training still favoured above online

Solicitors Journal's training survey highlighted the lack of a systematic approach to training as well as the majority of respondants prefering face-to-face courses

10 Jun 2008

Regional focus: East Anglia

'Tesco law'? Solicitors in Norfolk have seen it all before and are more concerned with issues such as the commoditisation of personal injury work. Jean-Yves Gilg reports

4 Jun 2008

HBJ Gateley Wareing in maritime merger move

HBJ GATELEY Wareing (HBJGW) has announced plans to merge with the London shipping and transport law firm Holmes Hardingham.