Perhaps the most worrying trend we are seeing in the professional indemnity market is the increased scrutiny of the financial position of SME law firms and demand for personal guarantees.

There should be efforts to minimise the gap between the UK’s domestic laws and its citizens’ religious laws with a view to merging all the different laws into the English legal system.

As you may have heard on the grapevine, Mrs Claus and I will not be working this Christmas. We have managed to bag a last-minute package deal to the Democratic Republic of Barbados.

There now ought to be no doubt in our minds that the collective proceedings order is an important feature on the litigation landscape. Two Competition Appeal Tribunal decisions provide some useful lessons.

The recent news that two large litigation funders have exited the market may have causes unease among solicitors regarding some of the litigation and disbursement funding solutions in the market.