Courts, Tribunals & Judiciary

Articles

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

28 Jul 2009

JAC and Attorney General unscathed by latest constitutional shake-up

The Judicial Appointments Commission and Attorney General have both emerged unscathed as the government announced the latest version of its constitutional reforms.

28 Jul 2009

Carolyn Regan: legal aid is the fourth plank of the welfare state

The chief executive of the Legal Services Commission is on the 'most wanted' list of many legal aid lawyers. Nothing personal, they say, but Carolyn Regan just happens to be the person presiding over a range of unpopular reforms to the legal aid system initiated by Lord Falconer when he was Lord Chancellor.