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Accommodating minors

Two important Court of Appeal decisions have shed light on the way in which local authorities should deal with homeless 16 and 17-year-olds. Jim Shepherd reports

Phoney tales?

Mark Conway and Julia Purcell ask whether the recent 'pony tail' case of DPP v Smith helps with the definition of 'actual bodily harm'

Asking too much?

Inundated by vexatious FOIA requests? Marcus Turle unveils a strategy for public authorities

Update: planning

Gregory Jones discusses outline planning permission and EIA, enforcement actions, town and village greens, planning consent & bias, identity of land owner and speculative sale of green land

Civil litigation brief

Gordon Exall examines the changes in relation to actions by and against partnerships introduced by the Civil Procedure Rules (Amendment) Rules 2006

Cheap talk?

Claimants should take the duty to negotiate under the 41st update to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 very seriously or risk a hefty cost bill. Peter Lindsay and Victoria Handley explain

IHT conundrum

Inheritance tax is less and less an isolated matter and should be considered as one element of a bigger tax planning picture, says Peter Nellist

Immigration update

Jane Coker discusses Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 , intra-EEA immigration, deportation, marriage and civil partnership, domestic violence, visits and work restrictions