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1 Oct 2019

Adoption orders: a rare revocation

Adoption orders: a rare revocation

1 Oct 2019

A discount too far for insurers

UK-wide parity is needed for a more accurate discount rate to be set when the next review comes round in five years, says Ben Posford

1 Oct 2019

Better budgeting

There are opportunities for costs lawyers in challenging solicitors' bills, but Claire Green says they are also the answer to the problem

1 Oct 2019

Bleak house, bleak future

The statutory framework for how councils should support homeless children is good, but the overall housing and welfare system and council cuts risk failure to make it a reality, says Enver Solomon

1 Sept 2019

Let's be realistic.

David Hodson OBE asks if it's time for a John Cornwell-style code of practice for lawyers' wellbeing in family justice

1 Sept 2019

Female dynasties: creating role models

Dana Denis-Smith gives an insight into how women have followed their mothers into the law over the last 100 years

1 Sept 2019

A dangerous assumption

Pippa Allsop asks why the legislators have not kept up with societal changes, when even the prime minister is cohabiting with a partner

1 Aug 2019

WEIGHING UP THE TRUE MEANING OF NO-FAULT DIVORCE

No-fault divorces will sap the foundations of the traditional meaning of marriage, argues Charles Chatterjee