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Editor's blog | The value of regulation

The Consumer Panel's recent report is initially worrying, but the timing is perfect

MoJ closes 103 PPI claims management companies

Some CMCs fail to establish whether consumers had PPI or were clients

Costs budgeting survey: profession unconvinced and unprepared

Not only are lawyers unconvinced by the new costs budgeting rules, there are also serious fears that judges will not have the capacity to discharge their new duty as project managers. Jean-Yves Gilg reports on a profession on the verge of a Jackson breakdown

Are you advising on Cumulative Impact Zones?

Jeremy Phillips highlights the increased risks and difficulties faced by 'landlords with property in cumulative impact zones

Charities | Should charities propagate extremist views?

Trustees must keep the best interests of their charity ?at heart when considering giving a platform to ?extremist views, says Kenneth Dibble

Workshop: Updated practice on joint ownership

John Bunker reviews the new practice note designed to? mitigate the conflicts associated with joint ownership

ABS countdown | Why did the SRA want to bring its fining powers more in line with the SDT?

Stuart Bushell explores a number of possible explanations for the SRA's desire to bring its fining powers more in line with those of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal

Looking ahead: embracing Jackson and helping self-representing litigants

District Judge Richard Chapman believes solicitors who embrace the Jackson reforms will have little to fear in 2013