Procedure & practice

As Stephen Gold ends his journey through the archives at 1995, he meets a canine court user and a sweet trolley suffering from shock

Julian Chamberlayne weighs up the benefits & challenges of a single, dual or multiple personal injury discount rate

Personal injury lawyers have highlighted problems with the Official Injury Claims (OIC) portal, including a rise in the average settlement time.

The next edition of the Green Book will be published by LexisNexis on 31 March.

Damages-based agreements (DBAs) are the seldom-used option when it comes to ‘no win no fee’ cases, but is their lack of popularity justified? In this week’s NLJ, solicitor and DBA-proponent Richard Spector, partner at Spector Constant and Williams shares his personal experience of running DBA cases.

‘Suspicionless’ stop and search is one of many controversial provisions in the Public Order Bill. Public and media attention has also focused on its restrictions on protest. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Neil Parpworth, of Leicester De Montfort Law School, looks in more detail at clauses 10 and 11, which sought to extend the powers of stop and search.

Fixed costs to come when the leaves fall? Dominic Regan tackles listing woes, distressed litigation funders & what’s spooking the banks

Highs, lows, successes & appreciative clients—Richard Spector shares his personal experience of damages-based agreements

Ombudsman shows the way; free cut-out; Court of Appeal goes weedy; housing rent increase trap; new royal warrant plea.

Aggregation of evidence is for the jury, not the expert, as Chris Pamplin explains