All Practice points articles – Page 34
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FeatureCoronial reform is crucial now
A set of local coroner services with widely varying investigation outcomes fails the bereaved.
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FeatureUnderstanding restorative justice
Now that legislation has enabled more widespread restorative justice, criminal defenders must understand the process.
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PI: reducing your risk exposure
Practitioners must exercise extreme caution when dealing with potential subtle brain injury.
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FeatureE-disclosure predictive coding
The use of technology in litigation disclosure looks set to become more common following a landmark judgment.
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FeatureImmigration: a challenge to the Upper Tribunal
The Administrative Court has sent a message to the tribunals that their decisions are properly reviewable.
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FeatureCommercial contracts: express terms
The Supreme Court recently clarified two key areas of commercial contracts.
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FeatureArbitration: when ‘may’ means ‘must’
Parties should steer clear of using permissive language in dispute resolution clauses.
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FeatureLegal ‘super-exam’: too good to be true
The SRA’s proposed central assessment fails to resolve every issue which persuaded the regulator to recommend it.
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FeatureFuture of legal services: in-house
What does the Law Society report foretell for the in-house sector?
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FeatureDefamation: serious harm revisited
Evidence and likelihood of harm are now critical tests in defamation cases.
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FeatureLinking medicine and law
Medical-legal partnerships under an ABS model could improve access to justice.
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FeatureChallenges of Welsh devolution
The draft Wales Bill must be fundamentally reworked if it is to live up to its promise.
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FeatureFuture of legal services
In the first of two articles about The Future of Legal Services, we reflect on what the Law Society’s new report foretells for private practice.
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FeatureGovernance review: commercial imperatives
Is the Law Society institutionally neglectful of commercial solicitors?
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FeatureWills: choice and control at the end of life
Lawyers and healthcare professionals have created a pioneering tool to help people control end-of-life decisions.
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FeatureLiPs, privilege and a solicitor’s duty
A solicitor meeting a litigant in person should explain the concept of without prejudice privilege.
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FeatureThe highs and lows of obtaining an ABS licence
Thorneycroft Solicitors secured its ABS licence two years after first approaching the SRA. Rachel Stow shares the highs and lows of the process
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FeatureDeferred prosecution agreements and follow-on actions
The first DPA in this country has proved to be exactly the kind of illustration of a DPA that the SFO would have hoped for.
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FeaturePower of a profile
How to find out if your law firm is getting real value from social media contacts.