Expert witness

Articles

9 Jun 2009

Taking cover

Premiums might go up, or they might not, but either way solicitors would benefit from putting in early and properly presented applications to their indemnity insurance provider and avoid last year's fiasco. Jean-Yves Gilg reports

26 May 2009

Driving a hard bargain

Proposed plea bargaining powers would have important ramifications for both prosecutors and defenders in complex financial crime cases, says Steven Francis

26 May 2009

Trivial pursuit

With wider protection available to whistleblowers, employees' concerns about environmental damage should not be disregarded as too trivial, says Daniel Tivadar

5 May 2009

Lessons in life

Practitioners are frustrated that it is becoming harder for children and parents to access legal advice in education disputes, as Jenny Ramage discovers

17 Feb 2009

Update: insolvency

David Archer discusses the rise of 'pre-pack' administration sales, the application of TUPE to insolvent companies, a rare misfeasance case, the application of the pari passu rule, and the latest guidelines on administrators' breach of duty

16 Dec 2008

Don't bank on a bonus

Lawyers should prepare for a hard-fought battle over bonuses for investment bank employees who have been made redundant, says Jonathan Evans

8 Jul 2008

Life in crime

David Rhodes discusses the fallibility of ear-print evidence as shown in R v Kemper

8 Jul 2008

Back to basics on confiscation

Recent House of Lords' decisions have reminded prosecutors to focus on factual evidence rather than statutory assumptions, says David Winch