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10 Jan 2011

Update: professional negligence

Katie Papworth and Andrew Nixon review developments in professional privilege, valuers' duties and putting a date on damage

10 Jan 2011

Update: personal injury

You wait all year for a highways case and then three come along at once, writes Roger B Cooper

20 Dec 2010

Lord Judge: journalists may tweet from court, in silence

Tweeting live from a trial is to remain the exception and may be restricted to journalists only according to interim guidance on the use of social media in court issued this morning.

20 Dec 2010

Turn of the screw

It's been a busy old year for regulation - but you ain't seen nothing yet, says Susanna Heley

13 Dec 2010

The state we're in

The property market won't pick up until the debris of the financial crisis is cleared and lenders regain confidence, so what does the future hold for conveyancers? Brian Chrystal investigates

29 Nov 2010

Update: social welfare

Gareth Mitchell considers personal budgets, meeting eligible community care needs, the disability equality duty and aftercare services under the Mental Health Act

23 Nov 2010

Provide more innovative routes to qualification, LSB chair tells regulators

Regulators should ensure that they provide more cost-effective and innovative routes to qualification for the widest number of aspiring lawyers, Legal Services Board chairman David Edmonds has said.

9 Nov 2010

Ditch legal aid for 'planes and trains', chairman tells Bar conference

In a speech subtitled 'There's no more money', Bar Council chairman Nicolas Green QC has urged barristers to distance themselves from legal aid work.