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6 Oct 2011

SRA not abandoning small firms

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is not abandoning smaller firms or trying to drive them out of the market, the regulator's chief executive has said.

6 Oct 2011

Cardiff CAB closes, but 'not because of the cuts'

Cardiff Citizens Advice Bureau closed yesterday, it has been announced. It is understood that the closure is not the result of legal aid cuts and the city council has said it has not changed its funding arrangements.

3 Oct 2011

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

29 Sept 2011

Judges to hear applications to withdraw life-sustaining treatment in public

Cases concerned with the withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment from patients in a minimally conscious or vegetative state should all be heard by the Court of Protection and should be heard in public, a senior judge ruled this morning as he refused an application by the family of a woman who has been in this condition since February 2003.

27 Sept 2011

Local government decisions

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

19 Sept 2011

Further accommodation for religious conscience 'unacceptable'

Protect equality laws from 'religious onslaught'

19 Sept 2011

Passport to freedom

Property lawyers may have little option but to join the Conveyancing Quality Scheme, but the real challenge is to offer a truly professional service not only to clients but also to their counterpart in a transaction, says John Outram

12 Sept 2011

High Court spares parish council from axe

Ruling 'the first of its kind'