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Local authorities must address parents' learning disabilities

Noel Arnold and Hazel Kent discuss the test for making placement orders, without notice applications and damages for human rights breaches

Maintaining a social conscience

Trustees will be able to take investment decisions with greater confidence under reforms to the law governing social investment, says Sarah Clune

State of play: case summaries

Jennifer Ridgway and Karen Bayley review recent case law concerning multiple issues of inheritance and vulnerable clients

Chris Marston: The red flags for banks when lending to law firms

Law firms with ambitious growth plans won't get far if they don't report the right information to their banks, Chris Marston tells Manju Manglani

Stephen Denyer: How to avoid being a 'dangerous' managing partner

Managing partners who get 'carried away with growth' may be leading their firms into danger, Stephen Denyer warns Manju Manglani

ADR and costs sanctions

Eighteen months after the Jackson reforms came into effect, Tim Wallis considers their impact on recent cases

Riding the entrepreneurial wave

With an increased entrepreneurial spirit driving growth in the legal industry, John van der Luit-Drummond wonders who the real innovators are and if they will...

Taking the spirit of pre-action?

Eleanor Kilner questions whether the professional negligence pre-action protocol is really fit for purpose