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31 May 2011

Update: housing

Giles Peaker considers Pinnock, the sequel, and a trio of revealing decisions on homelessness

31 May 2011

Slash and burn

The message from Birmingham is clear – if impoverished local governments continue to rush through cuts without due regard for their public duty, they will simply wind up back at square one with an additional legal bill on their hands, says Sam Karim

26 May 2011

Judicial review court to be mothballed next week

Hearings at Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court, the court at the centre of the legal battle against the government's radical closure programme, will end tomorrow.

25 May 2011

High Court cuts plastic surgery victim's claim from £66m to £6m

The High Court has awarded £6m in damages to a successful businesswoman whose face was badly injured by plastic surgery.

24 May 2011

PC charged with manslaughter over death of Tomlinson

PC Simon Harwood has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during the 2009 G20 protests.

23 May 2011

Report acknowledges difficulties in enforcing super-injunctions on websites

Enforcing a super-injunction on a website was a “more difficult” challenge but the resulting breach was “by no means the same intrusion of privacy as being on the front page of a newspaper”, Lord Neuberger has said.

23 May 2011

Root and branch

With an explosion of 'multi-disciplinary practices' predicted, James Ward explains how his firm made the leap from accountants to MDP

23 May 2011

Update: commercial property

The Forsters team assess the relevance of the Bribery Act 2010 for commercial property developers, a right to light case and a ruling on demolition works