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20 Sept 2010

Update: planning

Julian Boswall and Suzanne Walford discuss the implications of the coalition government's planning reforms, the Penfold review of non-planning consents, commercially sensitive information submitted with planning applications and a new fetter on planning authorities' discretion on their enforcement powers

20 Sept 2010

Pulling together

Collective actions have typically been dealt with in an ad hoc and unpredictable manner, but, now that they are rising in popularity, how can solicitors make them work? David Greene explains

20 Sept 2010

One foot in the grave

With the system in turmoil and the future looking no more promising, will family legal aid reach its 70th birthday? David Allison reports

20 Sept 2010

Napoleon's dynamite

It might be great to be British, but our penal system comes up short, says Lee Glade

20 Sept 2010

All shook up

It was more like a war, because there were several battles and the outcome was not to be known until all the fighting was over.

16 Sept 2010

DEFRA plans to give farmers licences to cull badgers

DEFRA is planning to give farmers licences to cull or vaccinate badgers in those parts of England worst affected by bovine TB.

14 Sept 2010

In-house lawyers not covered by professional privilege

Internal communications by in-house lawyers are not protected by professional legal privilege, the European Court of Justice has confirmed.

14 Sept 2010

Expenses MPs can appeal to Supreme Court

The three former Labour MPs charged with theft by false accounting in the wake of the expenses scandal can appeal directly to the Supreme Court, it was decided this morning.