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After-care options

Tony Harrop-Griffiths offers guidance on the after-care options available to patients discharged from hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983

Poor investment choice

Recent changes to the investor visa scheme failed to address the real issue of how to make investments better targeted to benefit the economy, says Philip Barth

Seizing the mantle

This week I attended the launch of the Global Law Summit, set to take place in London in February 2015.

Over a quarter of lawyers plan to work past retirement age

Seventy-nine per cent of legal professionals unaware of how much income they will have in retirement

Legal profession bids farewell to CILEx chief

Lord Neuberger: 'Success of CILEx, which has contributed to the rule of law and diversity, is attributable to Diane Burleigh'

Ombudsman data reveals extent of complaints against NHS

'Statistics shows the challenges people face when confronted with medical negligence'

Lord Chancellor 'hell-bent' on pressing ahead with criminal legal aid reforms

MoJ's increase of just two duty provider contracts is a 'slap in the face' for legal aid lawyers. John van der Luit-Drummond reports

Beetlemania

Despite the fact that Uruguay's nonconformist and libertarian president José Mujica cannot stand for re-election, the nation's upward trajectory will continue, regardless of who is elected president, predicts Derek Sambrook