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Slipping through the net

The internet has enabled copyright infringement to spiral out of control, but will the Digital Economy Act help tackle the problem? Rob Hines and Clare Arthurs find out

Update: consumer

Bryan Nott reviews the latest cases on payment protection insurance mis-selling, total charge for credit, pre-action discovery and solicitors' breach of duty

Update: crime

Ian Harris and David Birrell discuss magistrates' unreasonable indication, directions of law, sentencing guidelines, trial by ambush, proposals for a compulsory advocacy accreditation schemeand the Bribery Act

A healthy approach

A small dose of cooperation would cure the deadlock in many hospital claims, says Susan Bartfield

Against the clock

Anecdotal evidence suggests solicitors are waiting longer before instructing counsel. But why, and what are the implications for clients, case workers and the courts? Seamus Smyth investigates

Seismic shift

With Jackson LJ's shake-up of civil litigation costs looming large on the horizon, a new legal landscape beckons, writes Martin Farber

Netting assets

When it comes to litigation against a company in liquidation, just how long is insolvency's arm? Elspeth Talbot Rice QC and Edward Cumming report

Boy in the corner

The notion that the Supreme Court's ruling on a severely disabled boy's right to education has opened the floodgates could not be further from the truth, argues Yvonne Spencer