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Securing greater rights for cohabitants

A new bill proposing statutory rights for cohabitants may be open to criticism but it would bring family law into the modern age, says Fiona O'Sullivan

Law firms no longer get passed from father to son

The current state of affairs is all I know, says Stuart Price

Time to grow your conveyancing business?

Bulk conveyancers will be first in line to make the best of ?the upturn in the property market, but you too could benefit, ?says Kent solicitor Peter Rodd

Conveyancing portal pilots to start next year

'This puts us in fairly and squarely in the 21st Century'

Employment law update

The latest initiatives, both at EU and UK levels, to align employment law with economic reality are once again likely to be out of sync, says Stephen Levinson

Wealth management update

Ann Stanyer reports on changes to the calculation of tax on relevant property trusts, new measures introduced in the Finance Act 2013, and a case of abuse of authority by a deputy so serious the judge ordered the judgment to be published in un-anonymised form

Making the most effective use of EU law

Quite aside from the debate whether Britain should be in or out of Europe, EU law provides an array of rules, rights and options for litigators, says Robert McCracken QC

The fine distinction between regulatory acts and acts that regulate

A case about the right of Inuits to continue to hunt seals raised novel issues about applicants' standing in challenges to certain European rules, says Paul Stanley QC