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Losing the will
Solicitors Journal

Losing the will

While it is clear that big improvements to the will-writing industry are needed, the debate on making it a reserved activity as recommended by the LSB's consumer panel continues. Solicitors Journal asks those working in the sector how far they think the shake-up should go
Thinking cap
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Thinking cap

Jackson LJ's proposed cap on success fees could see claimants losing a lot more than 25 per cent of their damages, warns Simon Gibbs
Update: environment
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Update: environment

Adrienne Copithorne considers environmental impact assessment screening opinions, an odour nuisance case involving a landfill site, promptness in judicial review and planning fraud
Premises, premises
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Premises, premises

In the first of two articles on the application of the Equality Act in the housing sector, Jim Shepherd and Robert Latham consider how the new premises provisions dovetail with other anti-discrimination rules
Case closed
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Case closed

Closed proceedings raise such important concerns under human rights law that only parliament may determine when they can be used. Tariq Sadiq reports
Stifling the debate
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Stifling the debate

The principle that the law should be the same for all has been challenged by doctors and science commentators who say they have been unfairly targeted by organisations trying to stifle medical debate. With the defamation bill now making its way through parliament, one doctor and one science journalist sued for libel explain why they believe the law needs changing.