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Update: company

Simon Graham examines several spectacular frauds which shed light on the responsibilities and liabilities of non-executive directors, auditors and solicitors

Update: agriculture

Michael Aubrey and Simon Blackburn consider recent cases involving RPA overpayments, possession orders against travellers and the validity of notices to quit

Light at the end of the tunnel

A bright new year has started and we should all be leaping around brimming with enthusiasm for the opportunities that are unfolding. But most of us are not.

Barking up the wrong tree

Russell Conway reflects on some of life's more tiresome traditions

Lord Bach reveals latest civil legal aid cuts

Lord Bach, the legal aid minister, has launched a fresh package of civil legal aid cuts, which the Ministry of Justice hopes will save £6m a year.

Bar prepares judicial review to protect criminal fees

The Bar Council has responded to planned cuts in fees for criminal legal aid barristers by threatening the government with a judicial review.

Law Society attacks civil legal aid cuts

Des Hudson, chief executive of the Law Society, has attacked the latest round of civil legal aid cuts, announced by Lord Bach this week.

Man who hid house in barn wins planning battle

A man who admitted deceiving a council by building on green belt land in Hertfordshire a 'barn' containing a three-bedroom house and a gym, has won his battle for planning permission at the Court of Appeal.