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Sound advice

As the dust of Levicom settles, it is just a case of keep calm and carry on, say Georgina Squire and Juliet Schalker

Update: costs

Naming the wrong defendant on your CFA agreement can be a costly business, writes Simon Gibbs

Update: children

Noel Arnold looks at developments in special guardianship and which way the pendulum of leave to remove precedent is currently swinging

Genial justice

New brooms indeed: Kenneth Clarke has given us all plenty to think about. We live in strange times when the old bang 'em up Tories are thinking creatively and having photo-shoots on A Wing with some of the inmates, while the numbers locked up in the Labour years has rocketed from where it was when the Conservatives were last in power.

The game changer

Ken Clarke's plans for penal reform represent a positive step away from dead end policy, writes Andrew Neilson

South East: dip or lift?

Even for firms specialising in tailored or niche services the dreaded double-dip is striking fear, but there is optimism too, says Jean-Yves Gilg

Disabled boy cannot sue for human rights breach over lack of education

A disabled boy who was out of school for 18 months while waiting for a place at a residential special school cannot sue his council for breach of human rights, the Supreme Court has ruled.

SRA unveils crackdown to cut number of firms in ARP

The SRA has launched a crackdown on firms in the Assigned Risks Pool (ARP), amid concerns that the number of practices failing to find indemnity insurance could rise dramatically by October. There are currently 213 firms in the ARP.