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Skype helps courts cut costs

Pressure on costs combined with a steady rise in workload has led to greater use of technology in court including the free internet phone service...

Local bill for local people

Stephen Matthew goes behind the headline council cuts to find out what the localism bill really means for lawyers

Express yourself

How can the courts reconcile the acquisition of a beneficial interest in the family home where the property is already held in joint names under...

Final demands

Beware! Failure to demand rates may preclude subsequent recovers, warns Robert Fookes

Turn of the screw

It's been a busy old year for regulation - but you ain't seen nothing yet, says Susanna Heley

Update: costs

Simon Gibbs looks ahead to more dreaded VAT shifts and guides us through the latest thinking on costs against multiple defendants

Update: planning

Elizabeth Dunn and Fergus Charlton look at the continuing saga of protective costs orders, a supermarket struggle and why developers are breathing a sigh of...

And they're off!

As LeO beds down, chief ombudsman Adam Sampson gives us the inside scoop on what went on at the business end of the phone lines