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Concern over leaks from Young report
Solicitors Journal

Concern over leaks from Young report

Solicitors have reacted with concern to leaked proposals from Lord Young's report on health and safety which appeared in the press this weekend.
Update: immigration
Solicitors Journal

Update: immigration

Jane Coker considers the effect of the qualification directive on asylum claims, the criteria for recognition as a refugee and public interest in deportation
Update: professional negligence
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Update: professional negligence

Eve McBrinn and Andrew Nixon review disclosure in professional indemnity cases, substitution of parties, and the latest in the Levicom decision
Update: planning
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Update: planning

Julian Boswall and Suzanne Walford discuss the implications of the coalition government's planning reforms, the Penfold review of non-planning consents, commercially sensitive information submitted with planning applications and a new fetter on planning authorities' discretion on their enforcement powers
Pulling together
Solicitors Journal

Pulling together

Collective actions have typically been dealt with in an ad hoc and unpredictable manner, but, now that they are rising in popularity, how can solicitors make them work? David Greene explains
One foot in the grave
Solicitors Journal

One foot in the grave

With the system in turmoil and the future looking no more promising, will family legal aid reach its 70th birthday? David Allison reports
Napoleon's dynamite
Solicitors Journal

Napoleon's dynamite

It might be great to be British, but our penal system comes up short, says Lee Glade
All shook up
Solicitors Journal

All shook up

It was more like a war, because there were several battles and the outcome was not to be known until all the fighting was over.