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GMC swallows bitter pill of High Court ruling

The General Medical Council has accepted a highly critical ruling from the High Court, which quashed a decision of its fitness to practise panel to strike off a leading professor at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead.

Estate company can enforce 'reasonable' rentcharge

'Everyone must make contributions' for roads across estate

UK 'not in breach' of obligations on religious freedom

The UK is “not in breach” of its human rights obligations on freedom of religion, the government has argued in response to four cases involving the rights of Christians due to be heard by the European Court of Human Rights.

Legal aid bill battered by 'very impressive' lords

Six amendments passed as peers refuse to be 'bought off' by concessions

Setting standards

The administration of an estate demands intrinsic best practice, believes Kasia Oberc

Dickens today would write about the plight of women in prison

Prisons are no place for the majority of women offenders but still this is where they are sent, says Jeannie Mackie

How valuable is expert evidence when assessing a patient in a vegetative state?

Richard Scorer and Gemma Hall discuss experts' roles in cases involving the possible withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and in compensation claims

Wisdom of the crowd

The government has largely disregarded public opinion in its haste to reform the legal aid system, but the downgrading of access to civil justice will rebound on them, says Steve Hynes