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21 Sept 2010

Reduced bonus did not make banker discrimination victim

A banker who injured his back in a skiing accident was not a victim of direct disability discrimination because his bonus was reduced to $450,000, the EAT has held.

20 Sept 2010

Concern over leaks from Young report

Solicitors have reacted with concern to leaked proposals from Lord Young's report on health and safety which appeared in the press this weekend.

20 Sept 2010

Update: immigration

Jane Coker considers the effect of the qualification directive on asylum claims, the criteria for recognition as a refugee and public interest in deportation

20 Sept 2010

Update: planning

Julian Boswall and Suzanne Walford discuss the implications of the coalition government's planning reforms, the Penfold review of non-planning consents, commercially sensitive information submitted with planning applications and a new fetter on planning authorities' discretion on their enforcement powers

20 Sept 2010

Pulling together

Collective actions have typically been dealt with in an ad hoc and unpredictable manner, but, now that they are rising in popularity, how can solicitors make them work? David Greene explains

20 Sept 2010

One foot in the grave

With the system in turmoil and the future looking no more promising, will family legal aid reach its 70th birthday? David Allison reports

20 Sept 2010

Napoleon's dynamite

It might be great to be British, but our penal system comes up short, says Lee Glade

14 Sept 2010

Expenses MPs can appeal to Supreme Court

The three former Labour MPs charged with theft by false accounting in the wake of the expenses scandal can appeal directly to the Supreme Court, it was decided this morning.