Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

No more Payne

Recent appeal rulings in relocation cases have crystallised judges' growing concerns over the Payne guidance but they're not the medication parents looking to move were hoping for, says Teresa Davidson

Update: licensing

Roy Light examines the new, tighter licensing provisions introduced in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act and reviews recent cases on licensing procedure

SRA apologises for mySRA 'teething problems'

Regulator to update solicitors later this month

Present and correct

HMRC's consultation on the statutory definition of tax residence will bring more clarity, but uncertainties remain, says Ian Miles

Protection for agency workers starts tomorrow

The Agency Workers Regulations come into force tomorrow. These entitle agency workers, after three months in the job, to the same basic pay and similar conditions to permanent employees.

Mix and match

Sundeep Bhatia chronicles the woes of a profession getting to grips with diversity

SRA apologises over mySRA shortcomings

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has apologised to solicitors for technical problems they have experienced using 'mySRA', the new online system for PC renewals and keeping names on the roll.

Judges to hear applications to withdraw life-sustaining treatment in public

Cases concerned with the withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment from patients in a minimally conscious or vegetative state should all be heard by the Court of Protection and should be heard in public, a senior judge ruled this morning as he refused an application by the family of a woman who has been in this condition since February 2003.

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