Take-up expected to be highest with start-up companies
Michael Shrimpton revisits the case of the metric martyr
The compulsory levy to fund the Law Society should be dropped, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said in its response to a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) review of legal services regulation.
Small solicitor firms with between one and four partners can take advantage of a new direct route to professional indemnity insurance cover, Chancery Pii, as part of a joint venture between the Law Society and Miller Insurance Services LLP.
Solicitors to pay in dormant funds & City firms to sponsor major initiatives
Do we need great advocates, asks Geoffrey Bindman QC
HMRC has launched an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process for tax and VAT disputes, following a two-year trial.
McGrath v Independent Print Ltd [2013] EWHC 2202 (QB), [2013] All ER (D) 35 (Aug)
The High Court’s landmark approval of the sterilisation of a man with learning difficulties will not be a “green light” for other cases, the solicitor for the Trust involved in the case has said.
Ex-employees taking contact lists and other information from company databases with them when they go is becoming a major source of legal disputes.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires
Nikki Bowker, head of litigation and dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on
Ellisons—Sarah Osborne
Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team
DWF—Chris Air
Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment
An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ
