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Update: planning

Elizabeth Dunn and Fergus Charlton look at the continuing saga of protective costs orders, a supermarket struggle and why developers are breathing a sigh of relief over protected species

Update: children

Noel Arnold considers the latest rulings on adoption, hair testing and contact disputes

Human rights of sex offenders 'breached by blanket ban'

Banning sex offenders from adopting, fostering or working with children breaches their human rights, an academic at the LSE has argued.

Bring back authority, says senior family judge

The problems facing the family justice system are due not so much to the rise in family breakdowns as to the family courts' declining authority in the past 20 years, a senior family judge has said.

Strasbourg deluged by 2,500 applications from UK prisoners

The European Court of Human Rights has received 2,500 applications from convicted prisoners in the UK claiming their human rights have been breached because they are banned from voting in elections.

Provide more innovative routes to qualification, LSB chair tells regulators

Regulators should ensure that they provide more cost-effective and innovative routes to qualification for the widest number of aspiring lawyers, Legal Services Board chairman David Edmonds has said.

On balance

In two recent asylum cases, the ECJ has given careful consideration to individual rights while simultaneously highlighting the importance of preventing proven terrorists from benefiting from the system, says Paul Stanley NO

Who you gonna call?

The green paper post-mortem paints a bleak picture of what civil legal aid provision will look like if the MoJ gets its way. For firms intent on continuing to provide legal aid services, the proposed ten per cent fee cut will slice such a large chunk off their thin profit margins that their very existence will be in question, possibly leaving only large volume suppliers in that space. Some sectors are already predicting that practices will have to turn away half of their clients, making substantial restructures, redundancies and closures a distinct possibility. So, as firms begin to digest the details of the coalition's consultation on legal aid cuts, the worst hit offer a snapshot of what their services may look like come the revolution.