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Government faces judicial review over failure to support victims of trafficking

Lawyers argue that Home Office test and DWP benefit reforms leave victims destitute

'On the 12 days after Christmas'

A remastered version by the Association of Her Majesty's District Judges, with apologies to the lyricist of 'The 12 Days of Christmas'

End of the blame game 'in divorces?

Carla Ditz assesses the present state of the law and the campaign ?to alter the unnecessarily acrimonious route to divorce

SRA hopes to reduce handbook to a meagre 50 pages

Complexity gets in the way of innovation, admits Crispin Passmore

Setting up a trust corporation: 'How to compete with ABSs and banks

Arshoo Singh considers how a law firm-owned trust corporation is used ?and weighs up the benefits and disadvantages of creating one

Who regulates 'the unregulated?

The stakes could not be higher for both the SRA and LSB, given the most likely outcome of the government's review of legal regulation is a single regulator, says Stuart Bushell

The court's new flexible dispute resolution options

Pilot schemes from the Rolls Building offer viable challenges to traditional arbitration, writes Sarah Charig

A 'broad, somewhat philosophical question'

Is bridge a sport? An interested public and press wanted the High Court's answer to this question when it decided the English Bridge Union's (EBU) judicial review of Sport England's (SE) refusal to recognise it as a sport.