Procedures

Articles

15 Dec 2015

Restraint orders: Reasonable suspicion and reporting

Changes made by the Serious Crime Act are likely to cause more problems than they solve, ?write Rupert Bowers QC and Daniel Godden

15 Dec 2015

County courts: Cause for complaint

What can be done when the falling service standards in the county courts impact on access to justice, asks Keith Conway

15 Dec 2015

E-litigation: Challenges and opportunities ahead

A new IT infrastructure will allow the courts to focus on more proactive case management, reducing the time from case initiation to final determination, writes Jim Leason

15 Dec 2015

What could recent cases mean for the liability of banks to customers?

Janine Alexander and Bronagh Adams set out some of the arguments being considered in claims over the mis-selling of interest rate hedging products

11 Dec 2015

Trump card or turkey?

One of the defining characteristics of the American dream is that anyone can grow up to be president of the United States. Unfortunately, that includes Donald Trump.

10 Dec 2015

EU lawmakers and member states agree on first cyber-security law

Mandatory breach requirement has 'boy who cried wolf' element, says data protection partner

10 Dec 2015

HMRC pushes ahead with criminalising failure to prevent tax evasion

New offence could become a 'damp squib' ignored by foreign companies, warns tax lawyer

10 Dec 2015

The doctrine of penalties survives

The seminal judgment in ParkingEye brings welcome clarity to the test for deterrent clauses at both commercial and consumer levels, writes David Lewis