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Update: tax

E-filing - Work and Families Act 2006 - HMRC initiatives - HMRC interest rates - Bonus rates for saving schemes - Advisory fuel rates - HMRC computer glitch - By Carol Mead

Managing mediators

Paul Newman asks: if mediation is such a worthwhile ADR mechanism, why do we need an awareness week?

Family case briefing

Jane Craig discusses difficult cases, funding costs, and parental responsibility in the context of children's holidays

Ongoing care

There's more to determining responsibility for paying for ongoing care than avoiding double cost recovery. Jackie Linehan reports

Accommodating minors

Two important Court of Appeal decisions have shed light on the way in which local authorities should deal with homeless 16 and 17-year-olds. Jim Shepherd reports

Phoney tales?

Mark Conway and Julia Purcell ask whether the recent 'pony tail' case of DPP v Smith helps with the definition of 'actual bodily harm'

Asking too much?

Inundated by vexatious FOIA requests? Marcus Turle unveils a strategy for public authorities

Update: planning

Gregory Jones discusses outline planning permission and EIA, enforcement actions, town and village greens, planning consent & bias, identity of land owner and speculative sale of green land