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People power

The localism bill introduces a community right to challenge and a right to buy – but what does it all mean for the third sector?...

Carrying the can

With cuts to the Charity Commission's funding, we can no longer hold trustees hands all the way, writes Alice Holt

The art of giving

Michael Young offers his thoughts on the new IHT relief for charitable bequests

Class action

Helen Harvie looks ahead to the eagerly anticipated judicial review of independent schools' charitable status

Guiding light

The new sentencing guidelines are designed to ensure consistency and transparency, and give equal weight to both harm and culpability, argues Rosalind Campion as she...

You will go to the ball

Mediocre food, talking shop and terrible speeches – why are barristers so keen on work parties? Felix figures it out

Measuring up

As French practitioners brace themselves for legal aid reform, Geraldine George considers how their system compares with ours

More unequal than others

Lawyers behind the Commission of Inquiry into Legal Aid were well aware of the accusations of bias likely to be levied against them. As leftfield...