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No end in sight?

Indeterminate sentences are a relatively new phenomenon, but with their numbers dramatically increasing, the authorities should publish the correct test to be applied when prisoners...

Caste away

New provisions in the Equality Act give the government the power to outlaw caste discrimination, but its success depends on the outcome of important research,...

New for old

Developers may now have to pay a levy to meet the cost of structural changes to the local area. Mangala Murali explains how the Community...

A broader perspective

The jurisdiction of a Land Registry adjudicator has been considerably widened in cases where an application for a restriction against a property has been made,...

Off the mark

The ECJ's decision that Google does not infringe third party trademarks through its AdWords service has avoided other issues – not least whether the search...

Update: employment

Sue Ashtiany reviews cases on injury awards for discrimination, whistleblowing and stress at work

Update: ecclesiastical

Gregory Jones and Cain Ormondroyd discuss works to listed and other church buildings, equality legislation and cremation of human remains

A fragile mind

For all the advances in forensic science, expert and surveillance evidence (for which see 'Behind bars' passim, and without doubt futurim) the majority of criminal...