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Deferred prosecutions could benefit UK business

Specific safeguards in the Crime and Courts Act should ensure that UK rules on deferred prosecution agreements avoid the mistakes made in the US, say Aman Uppal and Henry Campbell-Smith

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Jersey has proposed its own rule change on Hastings-Bass, which could provide the Island's trusts with significant advantages over others, says Matthew Slater

Update | Contract: can the Good Law initiative make the law more accessible

A new initiative to make law more accessible and transparent might help the parties to, and advisers on, commercial contracts, says Mark Lucas

Why is Jackson sitting in judgment on his own reforms

Seamus Smyth considers Lord Dyson's recent announcement of the nominated five judge panel of the Court of Appeal to hear costs appeals

Red Bar Law: 'We pay barristers £40 per hour'

Pioneer ABS strikes deal putting barristers on secondment with corporate client

Diversity training is not enough to encourage women and minority groups through the profession

One of the first ethnic minority muslim woman judges, Maryam Syed worked right up to the day she gave birth to her first child. Things must change for women in the profession, she says

Regulatory watch | An unknown quantity

The SRA may want firms to come to them at the first sign of trouble, but confidentiality means its successes are harder to quantify than its failures, says Susanna Heley

Workshop: Licences for disinterment of human remains

Mark Hill QC considers the exercise of the Secretary of State's discretion to grant licences for the disinterment of human remains