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A better future: Best practice in child disputes

Simon Bruce, Elizabeth Burch, and Rebecca Heyworth discuss whether the reforms to the Family Court in 2014 have successfully encouraged separating parents to avoid litigation, and the culture change needed around 'acrimonious' divorce processes

Same old story | The Solicitors' Journal – 4 June 1999

Neatly timed to coincide with the Chelsea Flower show, another hardy perennial has reappeared: the composition of the judiciary.

The shape of future health and safety fines

The £1m fine recently imposed on an SME is a clear signal that the objectives of sentencing for H&S offences must be fulfilled, whatever the size of the business, writes Ruth Sheret

Employment rights: An unseen iceberg in the Brexit debate

Snigdha Nag considers the employment law rights of millions of UK workers to be the number one hidden issue ahead of the EU Referendum

The Bar must reassess the £127,000 dream

The profession might pay a heavy price if it fails to meet the financial needs of aspiring barristers, writes Matthew Rogers

Counter-Extremism Bill: A plot to censor public freedoms?

An all-encompassing, ill-defined, and overly controlling attempt to tackle extremism is counterintuitive and doomed to failure, writes Maria Theodoulou

IP litigation and Brexit

Giovanni Guglielmetti and Marco Blei discuss how the outcome of the referendum could affect the new EU-wide patent system

Gender quotas for partnership not the way forward, say lawyers

Women lawyers to wait six decades for equal representation at partner level