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Wrongful trading law reviewed as liquidators fail to establish 'increase in net deficiency'

High Court clarifies contradictory and controversial decisions that have flummoxed the insolvency profession

SJ movers and shakers

The latest news on hires, promotions, mergers, and deals from leading law firms and chambers

The RSPCA: Picking up the pieces

The charity's head of prosecutions, Hayley Firman, talks to John van der Luit-Drummond about a response to the Wooler Review and appropriate sentencing for animal abusers

Dual contracting: Lord Falconer chases government over wasted tax payer money

NAO must ensure the interests of the taxpayers have been properly safeguarded, says Labour's justice secretary

Clooney v Blair

Cherie Blair QC has come under fire from a fellow silk for providing counsel to the Maldivian government.

Michael Gove scraps 'ideological' two-tier legal contracts

Lord Falconer demands government come clean on how much public money was wasted on legal aid 'fiasco'

Dealing with ''the domino effect'

Ned Westaway discusses the recent case of Mulvenna and Smith on unlawful prior determinations of public bodies

Public safety 'versus public health

Jeremy Phillips considers a European ruling on gambling licences, cases on the boundary between the planning and licensing jurisdictions, and other significant developments