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Clients strip off in fight to save solicitor

Clients of campaigning solicitor Yvonne Hossack have bared their bottoms to help save her practice from becoming yet another victim of the legal aid cuts.

Angry solicitor to protest outside SRA

A solicitor angry about the closure of his firm by the SRA is to protest outside the regulator's offices in Redditch later this week.

Update: licensing

Roy Light examines the new, tighter licensing provisions introduced in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act and reviews recent cases on licensing procedure

The Rolls treatment

How can the government justify the money and pump over the new financial dispute court in the Rolls building when it is slashing legal aid and closing down local courts, asks Russell Conway

Protection for agency workers starts tomorrow

The Agency Workers Regulations come into force tomorrow. These entitle agency workers, after three months in the job, to the same basic pay and similar conditions to permanent employees.

Mix and match

Sundeep Bhatia chronicles the woes of a profession getting to grips with diversity

Local government decisions

How will the localism bill affect council decision making? Annabel Graham Paul and Douglas Edwards QC report

Quashing the beast

With an imperfect legal framework to combat trolling - the posting of offensive comments about people who have died - website publishers should take greater responsibility to prevent the offence, says Rod Dadak