Legal Information

Freelance Lawyers – A New Breed of Legal Professionals

Did you know that your company can benefit from using freelance lawyers and other legal service providers in a legal marketplace? It’s becoming increasingly convincing that freelancers supply you with high-quality work, with low costs and low risks. Freelance Legal Service Providers might be the exact thing your business needs to be successful. If you....

Legal Consultancy is on the Rise

What is legal consultancy? Generally, a legal consultant, sometimes called a legal advisor, provides legal guidance to clients, including businesses and individuals. They usually structure solutions for disputes, provide support for legal issues and review legal documents. In some jurisdictions, legal consultants are lawyers who have chosen not to or cannot represent their clients in....

Freelance & Flexible Lawyering

What is Freelance Lawyering? The advent of the highly sophisticated technology has seen the employment sector face a major revolution. Budget-conscious clients are constantly looking to cut down on necessary expenses. On the other hand, freelancers in the legal industry are looking to explore new income generating ways as aided through the power of the....

Access to Legal Services in 2023

Do We Have Easier Access to Legal Services Today? Over the years, the way that legal services can be accessed has changed quite drastically. In the early day, all businesses were listed in the Yellow pages. People had to flip through these pages to find listings of lawyers in their community and would then call....

Why You Need A Prenup

A prenuptial agreement is a legal contract made before marriage that protects a couple in case of a divorce or death of a spouse. It may also be called a prenup or premarital agreement. A prenup explains how to handle financial issues if the marriage ends. For example, it may list how to distribute your....

Reinvigorating Human Rights for the Twenty First Century

The imagining, proclamation and eventual codification of international human rights law rank among the most significant accomplishments in international relations of the post-1945 era. Although the concept of rights on the domestic level had been evolving for centuries, the notion that all people in the world possessed certain rights—that their own government is obliged to....

What is legal aid?

Legal aid is a scheme where the state covers the cost of professional lawyers to advise and represent clients in certain areas of law. Subject – for civil claims anyway – to financial vetting of the client and subject to the case having a good chance of success. Our legal aid scheme started in the....

Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013

The Consumer Contracts Regulations came into force on 13th June 2014 and replace the Distance Selling Regulations 2000. The new regulations implement the EU Consumer Rights Directive 2011 and make some significant changes. However, the best online companies are already following most of the requirements – because e-commerce is very competitive and high levels of....