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Immigration update

Jane Coker considers several cases highlighting the tensions between domestic and European immigration laws

IT/IP update

Susan Singleton reviews database rights, illegal downloading, data protection and private email accounts, and a European case on internet selling bans

January blues

Christmas already seems like a distant memory and already fanciful New Year's resolutions have been kicked to the side of the road like an exhausted turkey carcass. The excitement and pizzazz of a new year has been replaced by lethargy, fatigue and queuing at customer services to return unwanted presents. But don't be too down. This is not just any new year. This is an Olympic year! This is a jubilee year! This is the year that the BBC archives are raided again and long-forgotten TV shows are dragged into the 21st century whether we want them or not.

Sizing up

What does the future hold for the civil and family justice system? DJ Michael Buckley assesses the upcoming challenges

New year, new rules

Jeannie Mackie looks forward to the arrival of the new Criminal Procedure Rules

Obscene publication acquittal prompts guidance review

'No problem in making adult material only available to adults'

Minimum salary for trainees has no justification, SRA says

Young lawyers warn of 'exploitation' if trainee minimum wage is scrapped

MPs call for clampdown on whiplash claims

MPs on the transport select committee have said that the government should consider bringing in laws to restrict whiplash claims if the Jackson reforms fail to reduce them.