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The need for 'judicial continuity

District Judge Julie Exton explains the tensions between complying with the 26-week time limit and ensuring hearings in care cases are held in front of the same judge

An abuse of process: Circumventing the 'court fee hike

Strategies to bypass the extortionate fees now demanded have been caught out - and the courts aren't letting claimants off easy, writes Leigh Callaway

Supreme Court grants shared residence for left behind mother

Humane and modern judgment is of huge practical significance, says intervener lawyer

Improved health and safety sentencing guidelines begin to bite

New guidelines represent a 'sea change', lawyers warn corporate clients

Heterosexual couple lose civil partnership case

Judge rules that the current state of legislation does not discriminatory as opposite-sex couples can enter into a marriage

Tougher sentences for robbers using knives and guns

Judges to consider physical injuries and psychological harm before sentencing

Leading judges criticise court fee hikes as 'another poll tax on wheels'

Risk of denying access to justice is 'intense', says the Master of the Rolls

Supreme Court allows anonymity for reintegrated offender

Baroness considered balance between public right to information and potential harm to appellant