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Commercial property update

Magnus Hassett, James Noble and Amy France consider break clauses and vacant possession, uncompleted leases, superior landlord's consent and occupiers' liability

Legal aid cuts will reduce family solicitors, Norgrove warns

Supply of 'properly qualified' lawyers 'vital to the protection of children'

Supreme Court backs common sense in contracts

Ruling will allow courts to 'ignore chunk of original wording'

National ban on donor-assisted in vitro fertilisation lawful

National laws banning the use of sperm and ova donation for in vitro fertilisation do no breach the right to family life in article 8 ECHR, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

Does England and Wales need a cohabitation law?

The modern reality of two people living together does not fit with the inflexible and outdated principles of the laws that govern it

Does England and Wales need a new cohabitation law?

Resources would be better spent on publicising the tools available already ?to cohabiting couples

Lest we forget

A recent case provides a timely reminder of our treatment of war veterans

Norgrove calls for six-month limit on care proceedings

David Norgrove has called for a statutory six-month limit on care proceedings in his final report on family justice, launched this morning.