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Eyes on Switzerland

View from the bench | Be ready for robust case management

District Judge Harold Godwin thinks robust case management will mean a good deal more from judges than rigorously enforcing compliance

Workshop: To renounce or not to renounce

Ashton Davies and Samantha Ewing discuss considerations the professional executor must make when invited to renounce

Update | Children: interim care orders at without notice hearings, changes to expert witness evidence

Noel Arnold examines interim care orders at without notice hearings and changes to expert witness evidence, and says goodbye to family law legal aid

Update | Insolvency: when the objective 'may be objectionable in administration

Denise Fawcett examines when the objective may be objectionable in administration

Grayling demands further cut in legal aid for prisoners

Move follows cuts in fees in 2009 and restrictions on work in 2010

Thirty per cent of legal aid lawyers at risk of redundancy

Survey shows wide geographical discrepancies, with most senior practitioners most at risk

Behind bars | An Easter farce

Jeannie Mackie takes a trip down the river, and isn't impressed by what she finds