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In it to win it
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In it to win it

In the next instalment of our month-by-month countdown to ABS day, Stuart Bushell considers competition between regulators
Roll up, roll up
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Roll up, roll up

Forget 15 minutes of fame. If the tabloids are to be believed, record stats from TLS are proof that today's population is hungrier for their 15 minutes as a solicitor. But what is really going on behind the graphs? Nina Fletcher reports
Code of conflict
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Code of conflict

Susanna Heley flicks through the new solicitors' handbook and pauses on conflict rules
Close comfort
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Close comfort

When it comes to deprivation of liberty, it should not matter if the judge's heart is in the right place, argues Laura Davidson
Gangster clap trap
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Gangster clap trap

Jeannie Mackie tries to wrap her head around the MoJ's latest piece of baffling research
TV times
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TV times

I've not been arrested. I'm not corresponding from a cold damp rent-free cell. Nor do I have a couple of pots of Fortnum & Mason's jam – sorry, conserve – in my larder plundered from the famous store, sadly. The reason for all these circumstances is that I was unable to join the thousands marching through the streets of London a couple of weekends ago in protest to the government's swingeing cuts (I was too busy contributing to the Big Society elsewhere that day). Had I been able to march, I would have joined the hordes gathered outside the RCJ and Sounding Off For Justice.
QS hires law students to sell the brand in WHSmith
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QS hires law students to sell the brand in WHSmith

QualitySolicitors has secured an exclusive partnership with WHSmith which will see the legal franchise offer 'legal access points' in 150 WHSmith stores on the high street and railway stations.