There has been a great deal of debate about fitness for purpose v reasonable skill and care in these columns. This is a look at the topic from a slightly different point of view.

REUTERS | David Mdzinarishvili
January 9, 2012
Fitness for purpose: the case against

REUTERS | Lee Jae-Won
January 3, 2012
My 2012 wish-list
It’s that time of year again, when everyone starts looking forwards (or backwards) and starts making lists of things that they’d like to see (or not see) happen over the next 12 months or so. Not wanting to be left out, here’s my list. I appreciate not all of these will be achieved in 2012, but that is the beauty of a “wish-list”.

REUTERS | Sukree Sukplang
January 3, 2012
Welcome to 2012
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ring out, wild bells:
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow. The year is going, let him go. Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
As one year ends, so another year begins. PLC has been reflecting on events in 2011 and looking forward to 2012. Continue reading