Archive

10 Aug 2007

Update: employment

Sue Ashtiany considers the scope of employment contracts, victimisation, and the first case on information and consultation before the EAT

10 Aug 2007

Sempra Metals (1): restitution revised

The House of Lords' decision in Sempra Metals sets the record straight for restitution claims under English and EU law, says Simon Whitehead

10 Aug 2007

Sussex: the forgotten legal aid lawyers

The Sussex Law Society president remains optimistic that legal aid lawyers will make it through the Carter reforms. Jean-Yves Gilg reports

10 Aug 2007

DJ Philips in da court house

Regular readers – and I am grateful to both of them – might be surprised by the tone of this column. I am not bitching. I am not complaining. Weirdly, I am positive and forward looking and have hope singing in my wizened heart. I have spent a day at the West London Dedicated Drugs Court, where good people try to do good things.

3 Aug 2007

Clinical negligence and PI

3 Aug 2007

Clinical negligence and PI

Dr Jock Mackenzie on causation and general practitioners, and Vijay Ganapathy on success fees, ex turpi causa and untraced drivers

3 Aug 2007

Risky business

The new conduct rules are insufficient to ensure that the profession begins to treat risk management assessments seriously, argues Miles Geffin

3 Aug 2007

Reality television

Justin Michaelson and Adam Pollack consider whether the recent media phone-in scandals may encourage greater use of British “class action”