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Restraint orders: Reasonable suspicion and reporting

Changes made by the Serious Crime Act are likely to cause more problems than they solve, ?write Rupert Bowers QC and Daniel Godden

Exhumation laws are anything but dead and buried

Robert Fookes considers the law on the exhumation of remains and the exceptions ?to the presumption that burial in consecrated ground is final

Negotiating with Russia

Dmitry Chernyy and Alexander Muksinov consider the new provisions of the Russian Civil Code, their relevance in commercial disputes, and their similarities to English commercial...

Liability and aggregation 'in peer-to-peer lending

Solicitors are set to play a key part in government plans to allow investment in ?P2P agreements via tax-efficient ISAs, write Russell Behn and James...

Gender 'wars

It is a period of injustice. Equality activists, ?striking from their hidden bases, have won their ?latest victory against the evil gender pay gap. During...

The ever-increasing cost of prosthetic limbs

RA Shepherd and Gordon Wilson discuss the costs and benefits of technological advances in the prosthetics sector

Top trumps

A close familial tie or geographic proximity will not act as a trump card when the courts decide who to appoint as deputy

What's in a word?

It is disappointing to find that there is currently a gradual departure from the presumption of capacity among professionals, which is the first principle of...