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Give them an inch!

Matthew Howson has a look at some of the finer points of two new powers the government is proposing to grant to HMRC; one very well known, one not so

Trashing human rights

Conservatives confirm plans to scrap Human Rights Act and replace it with a 'Bill of Rights'. John van der Luit-Drummond reports on the reaction from the legal profession

News in brief: week beginning 29 September 2014

Harrassment from clients, banking charges, mergers and fundamental dishonesty

Blurred lines

Earlier this year, the then president of CILEx, Stephen Gowland, announced that the organisation would be carrying out an enquiry to investigate and prepare for what the next twenty or thirty years might hold for the legal profession.

Grayling judged 'unreasonable' over mesothelioma

Lord Chancellor loses another High Court challenge over LASPO consultation

SJ about town

Winning portrait

Risk management should be higher up the agenda of all law firms

By Guy Vincent, Consultant, Bircham Dyson Bell

Tories' 'British Bill of Rights' to break ties with Strasbourg

European Court of Human Rights would lose power to change under new proposals