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Editor's blog | Autonomy expanded

By ruling that the husband of woman who went to Dignitas after being refused access to lethal drugs in her own country, had his own article 8 rights engaged as a carer, the Strasbourg court has taken autonomy into a new dimension

Trust in lawyers goes down, but so does misconduct

New claims on the Compensation Fund fall from just under 3,700 to just over 2,000

Simplifying adoption laws

With a growing number of would-be adopters and children in care, should adoption laws be simplified to make the process easier, asks Alec Samuels

Update | Sports law: doping and lifetime bans, and ambush marketing

Oliver Hunt reviews the decision by the Court for Arbitration in Sport forcing the 'British Olympic Association to withdraw its bye-law on lifetime bans for athletes 'convicted of doping and on the UK's new approach to ambush marketing

Update | Clinical negligence: midwives, paramedics and other medical staff

Jock Mackenzie considers recent cases involving allegations of negligence by midwives, paramedics and obstetrics staff, and the extent to which the Court of Appeal will overturn 'a first instance decision on only matters of facts

Unleashed | Tackling the new reporting requirements

Bungee jumping is scarier than becoming a COFA or the new reporting requirements under out- comes focused regulation, isn't it? Russell Conway has doubts

By the way | Glowing with pride

Just as she has received praise from clients Catherine Burtinshaw must turn to the challenging question of 360 degree feedback 'for her first round of internal appraisals

LSB approves Bar aptitude test

Timescale to be finalised but Bar Standards Board commits to review after five years