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A vulnerable point

Protection for vulnerable adults is under increased scrutiny but what exactly does 'vulnerable' mean, and do the safeguards go far enough, asks David Hewitt

In good health?

With healthcare being one of the fastest-moving sectors around, what are law firms doing to keep up, asks Jenny Ramage

Update: planning

Gregory Jones and Thomas Cross discuss inappropriate development in the green belt, environmental impact assessments, disclosure of officers' reports and service of evidence, and sum...

Hanging around

Often it is necessary to try to de-mystify the court process as much as possible. Often one of the things that worries a client most...

The promised land

The House of Lords' ruling in Thorner provides a welcome return to orthodoxy in relation to proprietary estoppel, says Mark Pawlowski

Double grovel, toil and trouble

My bank has just bounced one of my client account cheques. Just a few words but the consequences are horrific. Why did they do this?...

If it ain't broke

The ideas behind the SRA's consultation on mandatory re-accreditation for solicitors advocates are under-developed, discriminatory and based on worthless evidence, says Tim Lawson-Cruttenden

A prejudiced rehearsal?

Keith Wilding welcomes the less adversarial and more flexible approach taken to welfare benefit fraud prosecution under the new tribunals rules