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25 Jul 2011

Losing the will

While it is clear that big improvements to the will-writing industry are needed, the debate on making it a reserved activity as recommended by the LSB's consumer panel continues. Solicitors Journal asks those working in the sector how far they think the shake-up should go

25 Jul 2011

Update: environment

Adrienne Copithorne considers environmental impact assessment screening opinions, an odour nuisance case involving a landfill site, promptness in judicial review and planning fraud

25 Jul 2011

Premises, premises

In the first of two articles on the application of the Equality Act in the housing sector, Jim Shepherd and Robert Latham consider how the new premises provisions dovetail with other anti-discrimination rules

25 Jul 2011

Case closed

Closed proceedings raise such important concerns under human rights law that only parliament may determine when they can be used. Tariq Sadiq reports

21 Jul 2011

DEFRA delays decision on English badger cull

Environment secretary Caroline Spelman has said she is “strongly minded” to allow controlled culling of badgers by farmers and landowners in England.

18 Jul 2011

Freedom of information requests

Making or resisting FOI requests? Robert McCracken QC and Cain Ormondroyd explain how they would get started

11 Jul 2011

Human rights of elderly 'at serious risk'

Supreme Court rejects claim from stroke victim for overnight care

11 Jul 2011

Appeal judges rewrite relocation guidance

Moore-Bick LJ says welfare of the child is 'paramount' in leave to remove applications