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Fit note: Fit for purpose?

Jonathan Whittaker, partner at SAS Daniels, comments on getting employees back to work

Driving diversity

Robert Heslett, president of the Law Society, comments on the need to increase social mobility in the legal profession.

Editor's Letter: Changing times

By Manju Manglani, Editor, Managing Partner

Airline spurns CoA litigation warning

British Airways has snubbed criticism from top judges, admitting it wants to push ahead with full legal action against the union.

Supreme Court sends defective vaccine case into impasse

Lawyers for an eleven-year old child who claims he has suffered brain damage as a result of a defective vaccine have been left to ponder over the exact implications of the Supreme Court ruling in the case.

Right to strike fight reaches Europe

A fresh attack on UK union law has been launched as the RMT argues current precedent on the right to strike contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights.

New faces

It is a fine excitement, election time. Because of the exigencies of a tough trial I missed most of it, but was found crouching in front of the telly at 5am demanding of it “But who are our masters now?” The suspense was killing me – but eventually fevered impatience was rewarded, and the quintennial rush to the Ministry of Justice website could begin. I'm surprised it didn't crash, with the sheer weight of lawyers anxious to know who their new line managers were and what life under them would be like.

Update: wills and probate

The last few months have produced contrasting decisions about the court's power to remove executors, a reappraisal of the criteria of testamentary capacity and a useful ruling on inheritance tax, says Helen Bryant