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The Laporte report

Laporte has curtailed police activity to prevent 'future breaches of the peace'. Seamus Burns reports

A defaulting tenant

Michael Goodman discusses the recent case of Reichman v Gauntlett

Update: agriculture

William Barr looks at inheritance tax and agricultural property relief after Antrobus 2, and McKenna

Just (not) married

A Rolling Stone, Moss and a gathering: Tony Roe asks, does this add up to a foreign marriage?

Banged up

Jail term inflation and death by dangerous driving: Robert Dalling tells a cautionary tale

ASBO 'victim'

For a person to behave in an anti-social manner, does a potential victim need to be present? Philip Rule reports

Facing case management

Law firms need to adapt to obtain maximum benefit from case management systems, says IT columnist Rupert Kendrick

Apocalypse now

The next few years will see an unprecedented shake-up of the legal market. There will be winners and losers. In this new series, different specialists from the Legal Practice Group examine what it will take to survive and thrive in the increasingly competitive post-Clementi, post-Carter world. In this first article, Simon Slater explains why many firms will find that mergers and acquisitiosn provide the best way forward