A SRA Policy Associate made the above remark during his presentation at the COLP & COFA Conference held last year. This was following the release a few months
The recent announcement of new measures to reform the welfare system was accompanied by the statistic that 2.8 million people are currently economically inactive due to long-term sickness
Benjamin David Tisdall Application 12517-2023 Admitted 2013 Hearing 23-24 October 2024 Reasons 31 January 2025 The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll. While
About 20 years ago I wrote an article for the International In-house Counsel Journal about the direction and approach that in-house counsel should take in order to gain
Justice delayed is justice denied. This applies to all parties involved in cases before the family and criminal courts. So when chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured below) announced on
The consideration and preparation of a costs budget in civil litigation is not easy. It can be time-consuming and often requires specialist input from costs lawyers. Since its
Kim Leadbeater MP has taken assisted dying legislation, via her private member’s bill, through second reading in the Commons and to the conclusion of its committee stage. It
When does an individual lack mental capacity? Section 2(1) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) says ‘a person lacks capacity in relation to a matter if at
With lawyers’ ethics under increasing scrutiny, the profession’s regulators have come out fighting, issuing a raft of reviews and reports. But deeper cultural change may also be needed,
Contracts sit at the heart of every commercial transaction. But key terms are often agreed in haste or glossed over entirely in the hope that nothing will go
