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Update: consumer

Bryan Nott celebrates a victory for consumers in the payment protection insurance case and reviews a decision on a notice of cancellation and a case...

Update: agriculture

Michael Aubrey and Simon Blackburn review planning permission for polytunnels, the binding nature of a contract for the sale of bull semen, and imminent changes...

Men that munch

There is an air of genteelness and decay in the expression 'ladies that lunch', conjuring up as it does images of bulbous matrons with hats...

Rude awakenings

Following the dawn raids on the Tchenguiz brothers, John Bramhall and Maria Wozniak turn the spotlight on the courts' power to authorise search orders and...

The truth is out there

Criminal defence lawyers will need to be bolder in the presentation of their case following the ruling in Firth, says David Rhodes

Adams to appeal to Europe after miscarriages of justice ruling

The Supreme Court has extended the category of people entitled to compensation following a miscarriage of justice, but not far enough to include Andrew Adams,...

Lord Phillips extends compensation for miscarriages of justice

The Supreme Court has extended the category of people entitled to compensation following a miscarriage of justice.

'No moderating influence' on claimant med neg lawyers, MPs are told

There is “no moderating influence” on the work of claimant medical negligence lawyers, the House of Commons health select committee was told this morning.