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Court of Protection Costs: The hourly rate after PLK
Friday, 4 December 2020In September 2020, the judgment in PLK and Others was published and the profession welcomed the notion that hourly rates applied to Court of Protection work were out of date and it was deemed reasonable for uplifts of up to 20% to be applied to the guideline hourly rates (GHR).
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Narcissistic Clients: Tips, trips & strategies for the family lawyer
Thursday, 3 December 2020Awareness of narcissism and narcissistic behaviour has mushroomed over the past decade. More and more people are being identified as exhibiting a degree of narcissistic behaviour, a rise that may reflect the explosion of social media or simply increased awareness of the problem.
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Bath Publishing
Thursday, 3 December 2020Bath Publishing is a unique, innovative publisher of legal books, training, online resources and tools.
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The Ethics of Law Tech & Remote Working: Free Webinar
Tuesday, 28 April 2020The growth of increasingly sophisticated software for lawyers is, perhaps inadvertently, giving rise to new ethical problems for the legal profession. As Richard Burnham, co-author of So You Think You’re An Ethical Solicitor?
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Remote hearings provide an opportunity to improve transparency in the family court
Monday, 20 April 2020The swift move to remote hearings in the family courts brough about by the Covid-19 lockdown could be used as a spur to improve family court transparency. That is the view of Sir James Munby immediate past President of the Family Division.
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Unethical Stories: spilling the beans on the worst ethical decisions made by other solicitors
Monday, 9 March 2020Mena Ruparel, co-author of our forthcoming book So You Think You’re an Ethical Solicitor: The new SRA standradsa and regulations in action, has launched a new podcast – Unethical Stories – in which she speaks to lawyers about daily ethical decision-making in practice.
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Is the fear of clinical negligence litigation overblown?
Wednesday, 2 October 2019Many headline-grabbing claims are made about clinical negligence litigation. For every story that a growing compensation culture is bleeding the NHS dry, there is another suggesting that healthcare professionals have acted with callous indifference to their patients.
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The art of being honestly dishonest
Thursday, 21 February 2019The concept of dishonesty within the legal profession has always struck me as particularly inflexible. This is not without good reason, as it is a foundation of our profession that no solicitor should ever act dishonestly.
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The ethics of lawtech
Monday, 1 October 2018The ethical conundrums of lawtech are many, sprouting mostly from its complexity. One of the central tenants of justice has always been that the way in which it is arrived at must be transparent. This can be difficult with lawtech.
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Pension loss on termination of employment
Friday, 24 August 2018Bath Publishing have published the 2018/19 edition of the Employment Tribunal Remedies Handbook
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