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Update: planning

The government's localism agenda and the proposed changes to the planning system continue to dominate the landscape, say Julian Boswall and Gary Soloman

A car crash judgment

It's not just women drivers who should be angry with the ECJ - lawyers should be equally disappointed by its feeble reasoning, writes Paul Stanley NO

Rewriting the rules

It's time we accept the court closures and put our minds to getting the reshuffle right, new president DJ Paul Mildred tells Jean-Yves Gilg

Changes to legal aid green paper being considered, Djanogly admits

The government is considering making changes to the legal aid cuts set out in its green paper, justice minister Jonathan Djanogly has admitted.

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Can insurers bringing a subrogated claim recover a success fee? Shirley Denyer and Raj Patel report

MoJ playing 'fast and loose' with impact of legal aid cuts

The Ministry of Justice has been accused of playing “fast and loose” with the figures behind its civil legal aid cuts and underestimating the number of victims by more than 150,000.

Vital statistics: legal aid survey

With 5,000 green paper responses to pick through, legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly could be gone for some time. So to fill the awkward silence Solicitors Journal decided to run its own straw poll of lawyers' attitudes to the budget battle. Here are the results

Sounding off is not enough, survey reveals

The Law Society is not doing enough to fight government cuts, according to a survey of legal aid lawyers.