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Six thousand solicitors and firms fail to submit PC applications

SRA warns that slackers could have PCs revoked next year

Increase in JRs 'mainly the result of' immigration cases, MoJ admits

Cases could be transferred to Upper Tribunal under crime and courts bill

Lords challenge Grayling's control of Supreme Court appointment

Changes to Crime and Courts Bill would move power to the court's president

Is regulation too little too late for the financial services industry? asks Colin Lawson

Rewarding the negligent and punishing the diligent

Kevin Shannon considers the inherent unfairness in the current law governing rectification of badly drafted wills

COLPs and COFAs: a nervous wait

With the COLP and COFA approval process operating under the usual veil of SRA mystery, firms may start to get a little edgy as Susanna Heley explains

Indemnity insurance for conveyancing

To what extent can indemnity insurance mitigate the risks of land 'and property developers? Simon Taylor looks at the issues

One step forward, two steps back

The government's decision to make it illegal for the Church of England to conduct ?same-sex marriages leaves Anya Palmer questioning its position in society