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HMRC tightens grip on tax avoidance schemes

Businesses and individuals must remain vigilant despite successful legal challenges

Immigration tribunal fees hike to go ahead despite steep opposition

MoJ defies profession and jeopardises access to justice to protect the taxpayer

Transform Justice: Court reforms favour victims and witnesses over defendants

Plans to revolutionise the court system are welcome but is the Lord Chancellor trying to achieve too much, too quickly for too few, asks Matthew Rogers

Book review: Cautionary tales: Lessons in ethics for lawyers

A novel approach to legal ethics may save law firms big compliance headaches, writes Iain Miller

Work and family stress magnify each other

It's time to stop pretending that the legal workplace is not about feelings and relationships, writes Alicia Fortinberry

Secondments: What is their real value?

Getting the focus of a secondment wrong can have a disastrous impact on both your secondee and your client relationship, warns Kathleen Heycock

The changing face of our courts

Chris Keenan considers plans to make the Family Division and the Court of Protection more transparent and tech friendly

BPP dean schools Vara on litigants in person crisis

Meanwhile, Lord McNally says lawyers are being 'fraudulent' with access to justice claims and that the profession should not resemble a 1970s trade union