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Editor's blog | Sub-primes for lawyers

Atteys and Blakemores were the legal profession's Lehman Brothers, but will the SRA go the same way as RBS?

Civil conduct | Through the international corporate veil

Claims seeking to pierce the corporate veil bring up further unpredictabilily when involving foreign companies, says James Maton

Transport select committee announces whiplash inquiry

'Access to justice for injured people must be preserved'

Rewards for the modern law firm

Robert Postlethwaite believes ABSs could open up new ways of rewarding the best and brightest while promoting a new, more profitable, way of thinking

Record breakers

Richard Easton predicts a fundamental overhaul ?of the criminal records system as the Supreme Court prepares to evaluate how records are kept in the face of recent disapproval from Strasbourg

Taking requests in context

Vicki Bowles welcomes the Upper Tribunal's directions on the assessment of vexatious 'or manifestly unreasonable freedom of information requests

Update | Local government: Social Value Act

Peter Hill looks at whether the Social Value Act will ensure that ?procurement of public services really is for the public good

Update | Environment: failed Environment Impact Assessments

Adrienne Copithorne looks at the impact of EU law on domestic environmental law and what happens when an Environmental Impact Assessment is not carried out