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Message from the Editor, Dan Hobbs: This is a special edition produced to answer many of the employment law questions arising out of the present COVID-19 pandemic.On 1 April 2020, Alastair Hodge and... Read more

In Brief OCBC Wing Hang Bank Ltd v Kai Sen Shipping Co Ltd [2020] HKCFI 375 [Hong Kong] Read more

The plan was to spend a couple of months in Italy at the start of the year and then begin promoting the book in March. It’s fair to say it was all going swimmingly until I broke my leg on a ski slope... Read more

Coronavirus, in a perverse way, opens up new vistas for me as a family litigation lawyer; and it may have benign consequences for open justice in family courts.I stopped conventional practice (daily... Read more

As a law reporter and legal commentator, one of my main concerns is open justice. The aims, obstacles and methods of achieving that in the context of the generally private hearings of the family... Read more

Probably the fastest growing sector in mediation practice in the last five years has been in clinical claims.  In 2014, NHS Resolution (then called the NHS Litigation Authority) piloted a scheme for... Read more

Last week I watched a Court of Appeal hearing. As a reporter and editor covering the law, that’s something I’ve done from time to time over the past 20 years. But this occasion was different: I was... Read more

How does working from home during Covid-19 affect your clients?Remote hearings are satisfactory to the extent that they offer a fair process with fair outcomes. But yet, something is missing. For... Read more

How does your new work pattern affect you as a solicitor? Read more

How does your new work pattern affect you as a solicitor?As a corporate partner at Charles Russell Speechlys I was set up to work remotely so luckily the work pattern hasn’t been affected.My sector... Read more