Archive

Update: education

Salima Mawji reviews recent changes to fees in further and higher education, the increase in challenges brought by students and the schools white paper 2010

Update: wills and probate

Helen Bryant considers cases on testamentary capacity, mutual wills, gift aid and valuation principles for 'related property'

The big idea

Alice Holt sets out the Charity Commission's plan of action for Operation Big Society

Will power

Fiona Wilson looks back at the key lessons learned from 2010's decisions on disputed wills

State of the arts

The coalition's recent measures have provided some encouragement for art and culture charities, but without significant changes to the UK's tax regime funding from private donors will remain a precarious effort, says James Carleton

New mind

Charities must embrace a new way of thinking to survive, say Romaine Thompson and Gayle Monk

IOU

Who exactly is going to pay for this Big Society? Jonathan Brinsden follows the money

Benefit cheats

As the public benefit test debate rages on in the High Court, Robert Nieri looks ahead to what the judicial review could mean in practice