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Northern delights | All the world's a stage

Dodgy representations of legal services in a new play makes Kevin Poulter wonder what the outside world thinks of lawyers

Update | Court of Protection: significant developments in healthcare treatment and welfare

The Court of Protection's decision to allow non-therapeutic vasectomy for the first time is only one of several significant developments in healthcare treatment and welfare, says Fiona Scolding

Update | Intellectual property: wide-ranging changes

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act and the Intellectual Property Bill will bring about exceptionally wide-ranging changes, says Susan Singleton

Workshop: Obtaining probate for a foreign domiciled deceased

Increasingly clients have assets in several countries. Colin Dunston examines obtaining ?a grant to an estate in England and Wales where the deceased died domiciled abroad

Guts for garters

Instinct doesn't help advisers or clients when discussing finances. But you can live today and plan for tomorrow with good measure, says Steven Hennessy

Why clients aren't giving your firm new business

By Beverly Landais, CEO, Devereux Chambers  

Grayling presses on with civil legal aid cuts

Separate consultation promised on judicial review curbs

Grayling to impose 17.5 per cent fee cut on criminal lawyers

PCT dumped in 'ground-breaking deal with Law Society'