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Show me the money

Tim Polli investigates what the last recession can teach us about tackling a boom in lender's litigation

Taxing times

Anthony Nixon offers a step-by-step guide to the inheritance tax pickle caused by the 2006 reshuffle

Update: children

Noel Arnold considers the latest rulings on adoption, hair testing and contact disputes

Update: housing

Victoria Pogge von Strandmann rounds up the year's key cases affecting the accommodation of children

Ministry of misfits

Community service and servicing the community – what's the difference? Jeannie Mackie colour codes the Big Society

31 not out

It's curious how the weather can sometimes mimic events in your life. You get some good news and the sun comes out, maybe. Or, in...

Naming and shaming by LeO 'might encourage serial complainants'

Publishing details of complaints handled by the Legal Ombudsman is attracting growing support, with 82 per cent of respondents to an instant poll carried out...

Editor's blog: Cash for honours

Well whaddya know. The first YL of the school year calls a revolution and within minutes (months) students are staging sit-ins (riots) on the streets...