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Health check

Muiris Lyons tackles the MoJ's clinical negligence reforms

Update: landlord and tenant

Did you notice the notice? Peter Barrett and Julian Sidoli del Ceno consider correct service in landlord and tenant leases

Keeping the peace

When a client demands a key beneficiary is all but axed from the will, how do you safeguard against the inevitable challenge? Lloyd Junor offers one solution

In it to win it

In the next instalment of our month-by-month countdown to ABS day, Stuart Bushell considers competition between regulators

Roll up, roll up

Forget 15 minutes of fame. If the tabloids are to be believed, record stats from TLS are proof that today's population is hungrier for their 15 minutes as a solicitor. But what is really going on behind the graphs? Nina Fletcher reports

Code of conflict

Susanna Heley flicks through the new solicitors' handbook and pauses on conflict rules

Close comfort

When it comes to deprivation of liberty, it should not matter if the judge's heart is in the right place, argues Laura Davidson

Gangster clap trap

Jeannie Mackie tries to wrap her head around the MoJ's latest piece of baffling research