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New year resolutions: Be prepared, organise paperwork, respect deadlines

As I collected my thoughts waiting for my wife in a shopping centre last month, I listened to The Twelve Days of Christmas. I thought I would offer my own version, in the hope that one or two verses will come true in 2014.

Road traffic accident update

Careful judgement is required in selecting winter highway cases, Roger Cooper warns

Social media is all about being sociable

By the time you read this it will be a new year. Once again there will be new starts, new resolutions and new gym memberships. It's time to wipe the slate clean and start over again (as I suspect the Law Society will want to do after the year it had) and to make a series of all too easily broken promises to yourself.

Mitchell penalties: hypocrisy in the extreme

Tough financial penalties are appropriate but try getting compensation when the courts screw up, says Kerry Underwood

'Don't ditch the label – there's nothing to put in its place'

Solicitors have no illusions about 'no win, no fee', but at least the public understands it

Charity law update

'Register it or risk losing it' is the attitude to take when a charity owns unregistered land, says Stephen Roberts

Criminal lawyers plan full day protest

Second 'strike' on the way if Grayling goes ahead with huge fee cuts

Criminal legal aid spending 'to fall by £84m without cuts'

Oxford Economics report undermines MoJ's case for slashing fees