Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Update: education

Anita Chopra and Salima Mawji discuss the Lamb enquiry, the JFS ruling, school admissions, parental involvement in schools, burden of proof in exclusion cases and other developments in higher education law

Update: family

Lynne Passmore reviews the rise in pre-nuptial agreements, disclosure, invalid marriages, selling the matrimonial home, gifts made to the husband and periodical payments

Privileged few

Not all documents issued by lawyers will benefit from the protection of privilege. Anna Pertoldi examines the latest trends

A good sport

The ruling in Uren emphasises the courts' determination to protect the freedom to choose whether to participate in sports with an acceptable level of risk, say Kris Lines and Jon Heshka

When time doesn't count

The exclusion of time spent on remand for pre-tariff review purposes can lead to arbitrary and unfair outcomes, says Philip Rule

Who holds the keys?

The uncertainties over which social housing organisations fall within the scope of human rights law as 'public bodies' is both a prompt to tidy up their operations and an opportunity for tenants to call them to account. Giles Peaker reports

No position to judge

Criminal trials have been big news in the last few weeks; allegations of murder or attempted murder have been tried in that most vexed area of human tragedy, the participation in the death of a loved one in extreme circumstances: mothers and children at their wits end and wishing life's end. How on earth can we judge? The other fraught area of homicide is the killing of an abusive partner â€“ the years of violence and terror that culminate in a moment of anguished violence: was it self-defence or provocation, or plain old murder? And then, on top of that, we have the dreadful Doncaster case where the dark pit of human kind has been reopened and we just hang our heads in shame and disbelief.

Council liable as woman drives off road into tree

West Sussex Council County was liable for a woman's injuries after she drove into a tree, even though she admitted driving too fast on an icy road. The Court of Appeal ruled that the council had failed to maintain the grass verge properly.

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