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Capacity to marry and marriages abroad

The High Court's inherent jurisdiction in cases involving the vulnerable remains a powerful tool to protect those lacking mental capacity, say Yogi Amin and Alex...

Life in crime

Benjamin Newton discusses a recent Court of Appeal case that considered whether the defence of doli incapax was still available to defendants aged from 10...

Update: sentencing

Barbara Barnes reviews the latest cases on dangerousness, young offenders, concurrent or consecutive sentences, young offenders and child pornography

How best to manage assets after the Budget

The latest Finance Bill 2008 is only one of the developments which should make investors review their position when deciding to manage assets either offshore...

Regional focus: Wales

With a growing number of law firms but comparatively fewer solicitors, the market for legal services in Wales is becoming more fragmented and the profession...

Stopping the clock

Recent cases on the liability of professional advisers have refined the circumstances where the court will dismiss limitation arguments but additional clarification is still needed,...

A fatal misconception

Classifying adults as dependants until they reach 18 or leave higher education may not be as straightforward in fatal accident cases as Williams illustrates, says...

Challenging the combat immunity principle

Claims by members of the armed services injured on active service abroad maybe more likely to succeed under human rights legislation,explains Dijen Basu