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Update: environment
Solicitors Journal

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
Solicitors Journal

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
Solicitors Journal

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
Solicitors Journal

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.
Fair play
Solicitors Journal

Fair play

As it promises a new approach to regulation, the SRA should start treating solicitors being investigated with greater fairness, says Susanna Heley
Natural selection
Solicitors Journal

Natural selection

Aptitude tests for law school applicants could be the objective filter that gives all would-be lawyers equal access to legal education regardless of background, so why do so few universities have them? Jon Parker asks some of the main stakeholders