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Send in the clowns

What is scarier: a maniacal clown or a human rights lawyer?

British troops will lose human rights protections

Civil liberties lawyer hits out at the government for misleading the public over human rights claims

Insurers cry foul as MoJ rows back on whiplash reform

APIL calls on the government to investigate insurance industry for rising premium costs

Four out of five couples ignore divorce law

MIAMs will not be effective until 2022, suggesting an 'embarrassing failure' of government policy

Fighting the insidious 'Snoopers' Charter'

In its current form, the Investigatory Powers Bill will mark the death knell of legal professional privilege, write Joseph Morgan and Molly Cox

New HMRC proposals place tax lawyers between a rock and a hard place

'Unworkable' tax avoidance enabler plans make HMRC 'judge, jury, and executioner' of tax advisers

The usual suspects?

Melissa Colloff, Kimberley Wade, and Deryn Strange consider the implications of a study on how eyewitnesses' decision making is affected when suspects in a lineup have distinctive features

What is the unmet legal need – and whose is it?

Susanna Heley examines the flaws in the SRA's proposals to overhaul the solicitors' profession and open up the legal services market to meet consumers' needs