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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.

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

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.

Local government decisions

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

Further accommodation for religious conscience 'unacceptable'

Protect equality laws from 'religious onslaught'

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

High Court spares parish council from axe

Ruling 'the first of its kind'

Update: immigration

Jane Coker considers cases on students appealing points based system decisions and takes a look at rights of appeal