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Update: competition
Solicitors Journal

Update: competition

Richard Waite and Susan Riitala round up the coalition's overhaul of the regulators and consider the implications of that European privilege ruling on competition lawyers
Update: agriculture
Solicitors Journal

Update: agriculture

Simon Blackburn and Michael Aubrey harvest the latest crop of cases, including vegetable patch valuations and fresh guidance on land rents
Sticking together
Solicitors Journal

Sticking together

While practitioners must adapt to the evolving legal profession, the partnership between barristers and solicitors must remain strong, says Nicholas Green QC
Behind closed doors
Solicitors Journal

Behind closed doors

While the proposed court closures will prove inconvenient for some, it is a small price to pay to prevent cuts to other legal services, says Gareth Evans
Fools rush in
Solicitors Journal

Fools rush in

The government must give careful consideration to the long-term effects of its proposals before it slashes the MoJ budget, warns the criminal Bar's new chairman, Christopher Kinch QC
Crossing borders
Solicitors Journal

Crossing borders

In a round-up of business from Brussels, Michael Patchett-Joyce warns that Europe must not litter its legal systems with regulations that render our jurisdictions unattractive
Open book
Solicitors Journal

Open book

It might seem like yet another bureaucratic burden, but the new e-disclosure rules are only logical, write Eleanor Mumford Smith and Jonathan Brogden
Sage advice
Solicitors Journal

Sage advice

It has been seven years since the Sage case left planning litigators scratching their heads, so has a reworking of the issue finally settled the score? Ian Ponter and Sarah Reid discuss
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