Calls by consumer organisations for solicitors with poor service records to be named and shamed have been ignored by the profession's watchdog. This could be about to change but would publication achieve the desired effect? Solicitors Journal asks three stakeholders
With judges showing growing displeasure at litigants found in contempt of court, solicitors ought to take particular care in how they record their advice to clients, says Clare Arthurs
The Court of Appeal's ruling on the foreseeability of risk may represent a softening of the position in favour of defendants in health and safety prosecutions, but at least it provides much-needed clarification of the law, say Gareth McManus and Mark Balysz
The LPC equips young lawyers for the commercial world but leaves them without fully developed family law skills, says Marilyn Stowe as she despairs of her potential trainees
Readers of this column may recall my initial displeasure in commuting on the London Underground. Although we are still waiting for the predicted Indian summer, the London eco-system appears to have a disproportionate and overwhelming effect on the Victoria line (the light blue one). What was in the spring an insulated capsule of tightly packed, occasionally infected city workers, in the summer months it becomes an overheated mass of confused tourists, tetchy children and overheated employees.
Local authorities likely celebrated the ruling of the Supreme Court in the Elaine McDonald case, but they shouldn't open ?the champagne quite yet, says Helen Freely
