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9 Feb 2007

How should environmental protection law be enforced?

The European Commission's draft directive last week proposing to criminalise breaches of environmental protection law has been received with scepticism by environmental lawyers.

9 Feb 2007

Banged up

Jail term inflation and death by dangerous driving: Robert Dalling tells a cautionary tale

9 Feb 2007

Just (not) married

A Rolling Stone, Moss and a gathering: Tony Roe asks, does this add up to a foreign marriage?

9 Feb 2007

Update: agriculture

William Barr looks at inheritance tax and agricultural property relief after Antrobus 2, and McKenna

9 Feb 2007

A defaulting tenant

Michael Goodman discusses the recent case of Reichman v Gauntlett

9 Feb 2007

Cindy Barnett

The Magistrates Association chairman shares her thoughts on a more efficient criminal justice system and community sentencing

2 Feb 2007

Update: personal injury

Jock Mackenzie and Meera Maharaj review the most significant personal injury and clinical negligence cases from the past six months

2 Feb 2007

Apocalypse now

The next few years will see an unprecedented shake-up of the legal market. There will be winners and losers. In this new series, different specialists from the Legal Practice Group examine what it will take to survive and thrive in the increasingly competitive post-Clementi, post-Carter world. In this first article, Simon Slater explains why many firms will find that mergers and acquisitiosn provide the best way forward