Practical guides, checklists and explainers for solicitors, trainees and law students — written to be useful, not just informative.
A dated tracker of the SRA client money reform programme: the two approved rule changes awaiting commencement, the closed notification consultation and the longer-term review.
Who can be a COLP or COFA once the approved SRA rules take effect, how the £600,000 and £2m thresholds work, and what firms should…
What IPP sentences were, why abolition in 2012 left thousands in prison, how the Parole Board mechanism works, and what the UN's arbitrary detention opinion…
The Law Commission is examining a consumer class actions regime for England and Wales. This tracker records milestones, the scoping questions and the interaction with…
How the State Immunity Act 1978 works, the exceptions litigators actually use, and where section 5 now sits after the Supreme Court's spyware ruling in…
What SEPs and FRAND commitments are, how English courts set global licence rates, and where jurisdiction now stands for patent pools after the Supreme Court's…
A practical guide to serving out of the jurisdiction: the PD 6B gateways, merits and forum requirements, a step-by-step checklist and the tactical lessons of…
How the Part-Time Workers Regulations 2000 work after Augustine v Data Cars [2026] UKSC 30: the effective cause test, comparators, objective justification and what employers…
A checklist for the solvent party when a litigant goes bankrupt: section 306 vesting, sufficient interest after CYK v Davis, dealing with the trustee, partnership-asset…