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Legal aid cuts will reduce family solicitors, Norgrove warns

Supply of 'properly qualified' lawyers 'vital to the protection of children'

Norgrove review could have gone further

The Norgrove review of family law has made some worthwhile recommendations but has missed an opportunity for a more radical overhaul, says Jon Armstrong

National ban on donor-assisted in vitro fertilisation lawful

National laws banning the use of sperm and ova donation for in vitro fertilisation do no breach the right to family life in article 8 ECHR, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

Norgrove calls for six-month limit on care proceedings

David Norgrove has called for a statutory six-month limit on care proceedings in his final report on family justice, launched this morning.

In their pocket

The latest government attacks on personal injury claimants are based on a distorted view of the market, says David Ellis

Update: education

As university fees go up, students are turning into 'consumers' of education services. Salima Mawji and Anita Chopra consider the consequences

Disappointment as government shelves cohabitation reform

No evidence that change is urgently needed, justice minister says

Blanket ban on working after 60 is age discrimination

A blanket prohibition on airline pilots working after they have reached the age of 60 is unlawful, the European Court of Justice has ruled.