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Health check

How to improve your chances of ?securing NHS continuing healthcare funding, by Cate Searle

The dark side: Trends in antisocial behaviour in law firm partnerships

Ben Rigby and Alex Aldridge explore the prevalence of antisocial behaviour in partnerships

Unfair advantage

Martin Oliver considers the difficulty with alleging undue influence in probate disputes

Refocusing priorities: How to get a clear picture of your firm's market position

Consultant Tony Williams explores how managing partners can reorganise their firms to increase efficiencies

PACE Update: arrests, evidence, confession

Jill Lorimer and Caroline Day consider cases concerning grounds for arrest, confession evidence and challenges to the validity of search warrants

Charitable status

Top tips on how to set up a charity, by Simon Leney and Kate Arnold

Legal aid: the final reckoning

It ended in a draw. A tied vote on domestic violence in the House of Lords – ironically the area where ministers have given the most. The government has the casting vote. Baroness Scotland's amendment was lost, and with it the final attempt to change the legal aid bill.

The legal aid bill is a disaster for both clients and providers

The government will come to regret making such deep cuts to vital services, warns Carol Storer