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1 Dec 2015

Welcome, residence 'nil-rate band

Vicky Day assesses the cumulative and complex effects of the ?Finance Bill (No. 2) 2015 on solicitors and their clients

1 Dec 2015

Laser devices, sim cards, and plugs key implements in corporate espionage

Technical surveillance is happening today, with disgruntled ex-employees executing vengeful cyberattacks, say experts

1 Dec 2015

Government faces judicial review over failure to support victims of trafficking

Lawyers argue that Home Office test and DWP benefit reforms leave victims destitute

1 Dec 2015

'On the 12 days after Christmas'

A remastered version by the Association of Her Majesty's District Judges, with apologies to the lyricist of 'The 12 Days of Christmas'

1 Dec 2015

End of the blame game 'in divorces?

Carla Ditz assesses the present state of the law and the campaign ?to alter the unnecessarily acrimonious route to divorce

1 Dec 2015

SRA hopes to reduce handbook to a meagre 50 pages

Complexity gets in the way of innovation, admits Crispin Passmore

1 Dec 2015

Setting up a trust corporation: 'How to compete with ABSs and banks

Arshoo Singh considers how a law firm-owned trust corporation is used ?and weighs up the benefits and disadvantages of creating one

1 Dec 2015

Who regulates 'the unregulated?

The stakes could not be higher for both the SRA and LSB, given the most likely outcome of the government's review of legal regulation is a single regulator, says Stuart Bushell