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Court closure judicial reviews fail

More grim news for court users as staff vote for one-day strike and overtime ban

SRA's application to be ABS regulator approved

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has welcomed the Legal Services Board's decision to approve its new handbook and back its application to become a licensed regulator for alternative business structures.

Father secures return of abducted child

Supreme Court reverses assumption that Hague Convention countries have effective protection measures

Update: children

Noel Arnold rounds up the latest developments in adoption orders and the requirements of expert assessment

Paternal instinct

Employees now have the right to take up to six months' paternity leave, but how will this work in practice? Andreas White investigates

Looking on tempests

There are alternatives to Jackson which have the benefit that they might actually work, argues Martyn McLeish

Update: wills and probate

Helen Bryant rounds up the latest developments, including an intestate polygamist and a couple who were so close they accidently signed each other's wills

London eye

Liberty's decision to shadow the Metropolitan Police at last month's march raised a few eyebrows among campaigners. But, as the human rights group publishes its findings, Laura Milne explains why the novel approach could prove crucial to influencing police tactics in future