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Strasbourg overrules House of Lords on IPPs

Restrictions or delays in providing courses for prisoners must be reasonable

Chris Belcher ponders the effects of more legal work being undertaken online

Enforcing the new squatting offence

As the first arrests are taking place under new anti-squatting laws Lucy McCormick assesses the reach of the new offence

Update | Agriculture: easements and plant protection

Simon Blackburn discusses the latest agricultural case law with an account by ?Fiona Ashworth on the growing role of women in modern family farm businesses

Complaints | Costs in matrimonial proceedings

Michelle Garlick and Deborah Sullivan 'explain how to avoid a complaint over 'fees being escalated to LeO

Leading your firm through a change management programme

Delivering a change programme for their firms may not come naturally to lawyers but in the current climate they have little choice but to shake up their approach, says Julian Summerhayes

Trustee or deputyship order?

The Court of Protection needs to be convinced in each individual case that a personal injury trust is a more efficient way of managing a large damages award before departing from the norm of deputyship order, says Sarah Playforth

Legal ethics can't be based on anecdotes

Simplistically seeing 'unethical' lawyers as ?bad apples to be discarded shows how inadequate current tools are in measuring ethical behaviour in the ?legal services sector, says Richard Moorhead