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When all hope is gone

If a whole life sentence has no prospect of release then does this utimately amount to inhuman treatment of those receiving the sentence, asks David Rhodes

Band of brothers

Laura Empson analyses what makes partnership a unique business organisation and considers how its special qualities can survive under the Legal Services Act

Court ruling in oil spill case paves way for extended 'producer pays' principle

The ruling earlier this week that seaside towns affected by the Erika oil spill can claim compensation from the oil company that had chartered the tanker is the latest in a line of judgments placing increasing responsibility on producers as polluters.

Part 36 offers following Carver

The ruling in Carver is a mandate to defendants to undersettle claims but there are ways around it, says John Coughlan

Update: company and insolvency

Michael Twomey and Eamonn McNamara analyse the recent House of Lords' decision in McGrath v Riddell and how it will affect international insolvency rulings

Civil litigation brief

Gordon Exall looks at the procedure and guidelines governing the transfer of actions from the county court to the Technology and Construction Court

Life in crime

Benjamin Newton discusses a recent Court of Appeal case that considered whether the defence of doli incapax was still available to defendants aged from 10 to 14 years

Opinion: where next for family legal aid?

Low fees mean that family legal aid firms cannot afford to expand and there is evidence that their numbers may be shrinking faster than anyone realised, says David Emmerson.