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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.

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.

'Parochial' Scots defend interrogation of suspects without legal representation

Scots law has been undermined by the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw solicitor-free police interviews, according to first minister Alex Salmond.

Money spinner

If someone becomes bankrupt as a result of an injury, what happens to their claim for compensation? Brent McDonald explains

Access denied

Narrowing the gateway to the family courts risks unintended consequences, argues David Allison

Sage advice

It has been seven years since the Sage case left planning litigators scratching their heads, so has a reworking of the issue finally settled the score? Ian Ponter and Sarah Reid discuss

Open book

It might seem like yet another bureaucratic burden, but the new e-disclosure rules are only logical, write Eleanor Mumford Smith and Jonathan Brogden

Crossing borders

In a round-up of business from Brussels, Michael Patchett-Joyce warns that Europe must not litter its legal systems with regulations that render our jurisdictions unattractive