Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7492

Listen & learn, says Roger Smith, the judges are speaking

Stephen Levinson puts Vince Cable’s new regime for employment tribunals under the spotlight

Simon Cheetham wonders why tribunal recommendations are such a rare beast

Proceed with care. Siobhan Jones distils the lessons practitioners can take away from Kernott v Jones

Amy Taylor predicts the effect of the EC Maintenance Regulation on the courts in England & Wales

Charles Brasted & Julia Marlow count the costs of environmental JR

Karen O’Sullivan provides a crash course in the issues that arise around liability in road traffic litigation

Michael Cook examines the financial implications of litigants in person

R (on the application of Mousa) v Secretary of State for Defence and another [2011] EWCA Civ 1334, [2011] ALl ER (D) 160 (Nov)

Parbulk II A/S v Heritage Maritime Ltd SA [2011] EWHC 2917 (Comm), [2011] All ER (D) 155 (Nov)