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Felix: Our cumbersome carbon footprint

You have to feel sorry for the farmers. First it was BSE, then it was foot-and-mouth, and now it is flatulence. Farmers are now getting the blame for global warming because the cows are pumping out gas at both ends more than the apocryphal vicarage tea party.

Book review: Gambling for Local Authorities: Licensing, Planning and Regeneration

Gambling for Local Authorities: Licensing, Planning and Regeneration; Philip Kolvin (ed.), Institute of Licensing, 2007, £49, ISBN 978-0-9555392-0-6

White & Case LLP

Originally from Legal Marketing magazine vol 2 Issue 3: Graduate recruitment in law firms around the world ranges from being very organised and systematic to being completely unstructured and ad hoc. A lot depends on the size of the firm, the type of practice and the culture of the country where the firm is located. Having recently been involved in setting up a graduate-recruitment programme for an international law firm in Moscow, I thought it perhaps fitting to offer some suggestions in the event you are ever challenged to start up a graduate-recruitment function for an evolving or new market, or need ideas to 'perk up' your current recruiting process.

Simply the best

Is legal recruitment a form of Russian roulette? Geoff Wild explains how to find the best staff

Carry the costs

Litigants should be able to claim their own preparation costs, argues James Ross

Statute barred

Adrian Oliver considers the conflicting approach of the Law Lords when a litigant faces the prospect of being denied access to the court system

Update: local government

Christopher Baker considers the new model code of conduct for members, bias and pre-determination, and negligence liability and human rights

Compensation magic

Finally the House of Lords has addressed the question of the calculation of compensation for terminating an agency agreement, says Stephen Sidkin