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End of the blame game 'in divorces?

Carla Ditz assesses the present state of the law and the campaign ?to alter the unnecessarily acrimonious route to divorce

SRA hopes to reduce handbook to a meagre 50 pages

Complexity gets in the way of innovation, admits Crispin Passmore

Setting up a trust corporation: 'How to compete with ABSs and banks

Arshoo Singh considers how a law firm-owned trust corporation is used ?and weighs up the benefits and disadvantages of creating one

Who regulates 'the unregulated?

The stakes could not be higher for both the SRA and LSB, given the most likely outcome of the government's review of legal regulation is a single regulator, says Stuart Bushell

The court's new flexible dispute resolution options

Pilot schemes from the Rolls Building offer viable challenges to traditional arbitration, writes Sarah Charig

A 'broad, somewhat philosophical question'

Is bridge a sport? An interested public and press wanted the High Court's answer to this question when it decided the English Bridge Union's (EBU) judicial review of Sport England's (SE) refusal to recognise it as a sport.

Government to reduce barriers for ABSs in legal services

Sir Michael Pitt: Lack of independence between regulators and representative bodies is slowing down reforms

Government goes online to shake up conveyancing process

Online only estate agents could hold key to new dawn in real estate sector