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When public law meets conveyancing

In the light of key changes to planning permissions and enforcement, conveyancers will need to adopt a more meticulous approach, says Richard Humphreys QC

Estate planning update

Susi Dunn considers agricultural property relief from inheritance tax, the costs risks involved in entering into contentious probate proceedings and the reduced IHT rate

Divorce update

A year after the Ministry of Justice introduced mediation as an integral part of certain divorce proceedings, Austin Chessell reflects on his experience in practice

Madness, madness

Tom Dumont considers the battle for Bridge on the River Kwai composer Sir Malcolm Arnold's estate

Business as unusual: Business continuity during the Olympics

Nick Brook, head of facilities management at Mills & Reeve, explores how to tackle the business challenges posed by the 2012 Olympics

Route map

Re JC highlights the difficulties of applying the best-interests test in applications for statutory wills, says Joseph Goldsmith

The public is being misled about pre-signed abortion certificates

Health secretary Andrew Lansley's attack on doctors pre-signing abortion certificates is both wrong in law and ignores the realities of medical life, says Barbara Hewson

Purpose alone can no longer determine if there is a deprivation of liberty

Earlier findings by Lord Justice Munby that safeguards do not apply because deprivation of liberty has a benevolent purpose are no longer supported by the more recent approach taken by the European Court of Human Rights, writes David Hewitt