Practical guides, checklists and explainers for solicitors, trainees and law students — written to be useful, not just informative.
Unfair prejudice under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006 lets a member petition where company affairs are conducted in a way that unfairly harms…
CPR 27.14(2)(g) allows a costs order on the small claims track for unreasonable behaviour. After Orton v Barclays the exception must be read narrowly, because…
Advising on single-sex services changed when the EHRC Code came into force. The Code creates no obligations, so what protects a client is the reasoning…
An HMCTS data licence permits computational analysis of published court and tribunal lists. This checklist covers which licence to apply for, what the application needs…
CPR 31.16 sets four threshold conditions for pre-action disclosure, and satisfying every one of them opens the discretion rather than producing an order. What actually…
A message retention policy is defensible when it sets a period the firm can justify, carves out matter-related material before deletion, and can be suspended…
A dated tracker of weddings law reform from the Law Commission project in 2019 to the Tying the Knot consultation, which closes at 11:59am on…
The Supreme Court overruled the Cheshire West acid test on 2 June 2026. This explainer sets out the multifactorial assessment that replaced it and how…
A practitioner guide to probate in 2026: the £526 fee from 13 July, current HMCTS timescales, why applications get stopped, and the new 12-week escalation…