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Roll up, roll up

Forget 15 minutes of fame. If the tabloids are to be believed, record stats from TLS are proof that today's population is hungrier for their 15 minutes as a solicitor. But what is really going on behind the graphs? Nina Fletcher reports

Code of conflict

Susanna Heley flicks through the new solicitors' handbook and pauses on conflict rules

Close comfort

When it comes to deprivation of liberty, it should not matter if the judge's heart is in the right place, argues Laura Davidson

Right move

Jonathan Silverman and Jennie Kreser explain how capitalising on intellectual property rights could unlock funds from a client's pension fund

Update: employment

Sue Ashtiany reviews the new retirement rules, additional paternity leave and recent decisions on unfair dismissal

Pushing forward

As the government goes full steam ahead with Jackson, Simon Gibbs brings us up to speed on the current case law ahead of wholesale civil justice reform

No place like home

Could home births now be outlawed following rulings by Brussels and Strasbourg? Barbara Hewson reports

No win, no fee, no way

When Ken Clarke unveiled his widely anticipated plans to reform no win, no fee arrangements last Tuesday, nobody expected that he would also put forward another set of proposals for the reform of the civil justice system as a whole. In the maelstrom that engulfed the personal injury world later that day, one issue was remarkably absent...