Courts, Tribunals & Judiciary

Articles

26 Aug 2009

More than words

The Criminal Justice Act has been incorrectly worded and those eligible for compensation following wrongful imprisonment are being denied their rights, says Richard Emery

18 Aug 2009

What's wrong with the warrant?

John Bechelet explains the search warrant process and what happens when the police get it wrong

18 Aug 2009

Stretching it

The effects of the recession on the property market have created challenges for the courts, says DJ Julie Exton

11 Aug 2009

Update: commercial property

Milton McIntosh considers cases on lease agreements, the interpretation of rent review provisions, arbitrations, authorised guarantee agreements, surrenders and break notices

11 Aug 2009

No doubt

Employers should avoid ambiguity in their medical questionnaires to ensure they recruit staff who are able to effectively perform their roles, says Sarah Jane Turcan

4 Aug 2009

Friends in high places

'Diversification' is a buzz word very much in vogue at the moment. It is important to have a diverse profession, a diverse judiciary, and presumably diverse participants in the whole jolly thing, without whom we are all twiddling our thumbs and fiddling with paperclips. Curiously, everybody feels that they are on the wrong end of diversification, except for (almost) the very people without whom we are all twiddling our thumbs and fiddling with paperclips.

4 Aug 2009

New deal

The SRA's new powers should enable it to deal with cases more efficiently and fairly, but is it a better deal for the regulated, asks Tony Guise

4 Aug 2009

Avoid like the plague

Russell Conway considers how the legal profession will cope as swine flu takes hold