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Managing mediators

Paul Newman asks: if mediation is such a worthwhile ADR mechanism, why do we need an awareness week?

Update: tax

E-filing - Work and Families Act 2006 - HMRC initiatives - HMRC interest rates - Bonus rates for saving schemes - Advisory fuel rates - HMRC computer glitch - By Carol Mead

A revolution

Psychotherapeutic mediation is the most efficient dispute resolution process invented so far, says Marc Beaumont

Accidents at work (1)

Five years after his first series on accidents at work, Gordon Exall explores the changes in the law

Civil litigation brief

Gordon Exall examines the changes in relation to actions by and against partnerships introduced by the Civil Procedure Rules (Amendment) Rules 2006

Update: planning

Gregory Jones discusses outline planning permission and EIA, enforcement actions, town and village greens, planning consent & bias, identity of land owner and speculative sale of green land

Asking too much?

Inundated by vexatious FOIA requests? Marcus Turle unveils a strategy for public authorities

Phoney tales?

Mark Conway and Julia Purcell ask whether the recent 'pony tail' case of DPP v Smith helps with the definition of 'actual bodily harm'