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Glass half full?

The Legal Services Act will provide new opportunities for the delivery of legal advice, but will it improve access to justice, asks James Sandbach

Clear the way

What constitutes 'multiple agreements' under the Consumer Credit Act is so unclear the revelant provision should be repealed to avoid wasting anymore time on attempts to understand it, says Richard Mawrey QC

Lawyers without frontiers: Nigeria

The Nigeria Law School and the Nigerian Bar Association, now with the support of the Law Society in England, are leading the fight for the protection of human rights and access to justice in a country that has suffered from decades of military rule, says Sara Chandler

Unfinished sympathy

Many buyers have become unable to obtain funding for off-plan purchases that were agreed in better economic times, but there are several options open to purchasers and developers seeking to mitigate the problems this can raise, say Charles Joseph and Tim Polli

The beginning of the end or a new dawn?

Dominic Beeton examines the major upheaval looming in the law on restrictive covenants

Bearing the burden

The current market continues to keep commercial solicitors busy, and the introduction of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme will present a whole new set of challenges, say Victoria Edwards and Janet Matthews

Love thy neighbour

Practitioners dealing with boundary disputes should attempt to settle such disagreements amicably to avoid incurring unnecessary legal costs, says Duncan Kynoch

Update: planning

Gregory Jones and Ned Westaway discuss cases involving conservation areas, listed buildings, environmental impact assessment, the interpretation of planning permission and procedural unfairness as a ground of planning appeal