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28 Apr 2010

Barristers to instruct solicitors under new business model

Barristers' chambers could instruct solicitors under the Bar Council's plans for new business structures.

27 Apr 2010

Update: ecclesiastical

Gregory Jones and Cain Ormondroyd discuss works to listed and other church buildings, equality legislation and cremation of human remains

20 Apr 2010

Update: commercial property

Eugene McMahon and Janet Matthews consider cases involving authorised guarantee agreements, virtual assignments and rent as an expense of administration

13 Apr 2010

Straw forced to scrap libel conditional fee cut

Justice secretary Jack Straw's plan to cut the maximum success fees charged by libel lawyers in conditional fee cases from 100 to ten per cent of damages has been dropped by the government.

13 Apr 2010

Axe falls on criminal legal aid advocates

A funding order cutting the fees of criminal legal aid advocates was approved by both houses of Parliament as part of last week's legislative 'wash-up'.

12 Apr 2010

Attorney General's former housekeeper guilty of fraud

Loloahi Tapui, former housekeeper of Attorney General Baroness Scotland, has been convicted of fraud at Southwark Crown Court.

30 Mar 2010

North East: let's be charitable

Despite the recession slowing down the progress of many charities in the North East, as the economy improves the third sector scene is beginning to thrive, providing lawyers with more opportunities to grow this part of their business. Jean-Yves Gilg reports

30 Mar 2010

Back to the future

It's 2020. Ten years ago Lord Justice Jackson made recommendations to control the spiralling costs of civil litigation. Most have been implemented and the first clutch of appeals are now coming through. DJ Richard Chapman has written up the first case reports for Solicitors Journal