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Cold call

Forcing clients to ring a helpline before they can access a solicitor will restrict choice and access to justice, warns Russell Conway

Curb your enthusiasm

With the government hinting at serious IP reform, Jonathan Silverman offers a step-by-step guide to handling inventors

Update: personal injury

You wait all year for a highways case and then three come along at once, writes Roger B Cooper

Update: professional negligence

Katie Papworth and Andrew Nixon review developments in professional privilege, valuers' duties and putting a date on damage

Local bill for local people

Stephen Matthew goes behind the headline council cuts to find out what the localism bill really means for lawyers

Express yourself

How can the courts reconcile the acquisition of a beneficial interest in the family home where the property is already held in joint names under an express trust? Mark Pawlowski investigates

Final demands

Beware! Failure to demand rates may preclude subsequent recovers, warns Robert Fookes

Turn of the screw

It's been a busy old year for regulation - but you ain't seen nothing yet, says Susanna Heley