Gill’s Blog

In the Tolley’s Bellweather Report solicitors believe 33% of their business on average is won purely on price rather than on the expertise of the firm. A telling 26% of those surveyed did not [...]

Step up to the plate the LawSkills Monthly Digest – a reasonably priced alternative between the two. Not too frequent to overlook reading it. Not complicated to read, requiring no search engine [...]

On 8 November 2018 I attended an interesting and yet disappointing forum on the future of legal education. All the expected speakers were there from the SRA, LSB, TLS, TBC, CiLEX and other [...]

All probate practitioners will remember the 2017 storm caused by the callous and unprincipled attempt by Government to hike up probate fees for bereaved clients through the statutory instrument [...]

The mist, or should I say fog, was definitely around one morning as I tried in vain to fly to Manchester airport to give a presentation in the city and I had to revert to good old fashioned train [...]

A summary of the latest developments in tax including a link to the latest Trust & Estates Newsletter from HMRC.

We all know that competition for legal services is getting hotter. Whether we like it or not the SRA is requiring price transparency in respect of certain legal services from December 2018. From [...]

Here are a selection of items that appear in HM Treasury's draft Finance Bill, open for consultation until 31 August 2018.

Who would have thought back in March when snow disrupted our lives that come May a heatwave would build such as to challenge the record of 1976 (yes I am that old I remember it well) Here we are [...]

In the past few weeks I have been privileged to meet with practitioners from Bodmin to Isle of Wight and pretty much everywhere else online. I am told by many of you that the role of acting for [...]