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Update | Residential property: parking easements, insurance rent, basement excavation

Janet Armstrong-Fox explores the implications of recent cases on car parking easements, 'the strict requirements for the recovery of insurance rent and basement excavation in a leasehold context

In it together: Property ownership for partnerships

Louis Baker discusses the key considerations in owning commercial property in a partnership or LLP

Working it out: divorce settlements

Does one size fit all in divorce settlements? Lauren Greenhalgh questions the logic of using a mathematical formula to divide assets

Update | Licensing: lap-dancing venues, rights of those with an interest in licensed premises, mystery shopping

Roy Light discusses the rules on appeals against refusal to license lap dancing venues, how the law protects the rights of those with an interest in licensed premises, and mystery shopping initiatives

Update | Road traffic: illegality as a defence

Roger Cooper reviews the circumstances where illegality can be used as a defence

A good recession: Why the recession is good for law firms

Chris Smylie discusses why the UK legal profession should view the current recession in a positive light

Crossing the void

Jan Goddard untangles the conflict of laws that can exist between the UK and Canada over incapacity issues

Behind the privacy screen: the assumption of confidentiality in arbitration proceedings

Confidentiality and privacy may be the main reasons why litigants chose arbitration over court proceedings but they should not be taken for granted, says David Lytton