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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What does it take to become an expert? Some would argue that it is 10,000 hours of practice but Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers really only suggested this was what it took for the Dodds and [...]
The law never stands still does it? Just look at what the Private Client practitioner is having to cope with at the moment. The Law Commission, the OTS and HMRC are all proposing major changes. [...]
Trust administrators never die they just have a nervous breakdown round about now. In a normal year January would be busy with tax return preparation but this year the Trust Registration Service [...]
Perhaps the war gave the word ‘collaborator’ a nasty edge but in the 21st century what can we achieve on our own? Collaboration is the way we share knowledge and skills to get the job done. [...]
