Archive

Update: residential property

Janet Armstrong-Fox discusses recent cases on waiver in conditional contracts, landlords' repairing obligations and boundary disputes

Update: licensing

Roy Light reviews the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, appeals in the magistrates' courts, and the latest books licensing practitioners should have on their shelves

Called into question

Don't be taken in by the LSB's skewed interpretation of the complaints handling survey, warns Susanna Heley

French delicacy

Wondering who's been turning the European wheels of justice recently? Hamsters, mainly. Paul Stanley QC reports

The gloves are off

The only winner in the Hastings-Bass U-turn will be the tax man, argues Ruth Hughes

More unequal than others

Lawyers behind the Commission of Inquiry into Legal Aid were well aware of the accusations of bias likely to be levied against them. As leftfield organisations opposing the legal aid budget cuts the Young Legal Aid Lawyers and the Haldane Society expected to be criticised for trying to pass off their inquiry as a piece of independent research.

Measuring up

As French practitioners brace themselves for legal aid reform, Geraldine George considers how their system compares with ours

You will go to the ball

Mediocre food, talking shop and terrible speeches – why are barristers so keen on work parties? Felix figures it out