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Will the real team leaders please stand up?

As she relives an unpleasant blame-game incident, Catherine Burtinshaw urges her fellow solicitors to take a more professional, team approach to accountability

Normalising a homicidal culture of healthcare

The Liverpool Care Pathway had the unintended effect of turning death into a routine treatment so it is only right that it should be wound...

How low can you go?

Forecasts suggest there will be increasing challenges over the next five years for low-risk investors and their advisers, says Claire Bennison

Human rights select committee to investigate civil legal aid cuts

Grayling warns he will not 'go back to the start' on criminal legal aid

Greaves v Stolkin

Jonathan Riley rounds up a contentious probate case and the lessons learned for practitioners

Secrets and lies

Controversial and sinister? A licence to loot? Your client could be reading these media labels about the Court of Protection, warns Sofia Tayton

Bevan Ashford loses negligence battle against fraudster's wife

'Plan as a pikestaff' that 'highly unlikely' husband would avoid prosecution

SRA approves new fines regime

Increasing £2,000 fine for non-ABS firms 'will take time'