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Update: personal injury

Vijay Ganapathy considers the duty of care owed by a parent company to the employees of its subsidiaries, the dangers of expert shopping and withdrawal of an admission of liability

Report acknowledges difficulties in enforcing super-injunctions on websites

Enforcing a super-injunction on a website was a “more difficult” challenge but the resulting breach was “by no means the same intrusion of privacy as being on the front page of a newspaper”, Lord Neuberger has said.

ABS countdown

Stuart Bushell gets us ready for the LSA's big bang

Clarke's 50 per cent discount plan 'to be ditched'

Justice secretary Ken Clarke's plans to increase the discount on sentences for early guilty pleas from a third to 50 per cent will be ditched, Downing Street sources are reported to have told the media.

IP review urges government to take action

Current intellectual property law is stifling the economy but only serious government intervention can fix it, an inquiry has found.

Police guidelines on retaining DNA profiles are unlawful, Supreme Court rules

Guidelines used by the police to determine when they should destroy DNA profiles and fingerprints are unlawful and incompatible with article 8 of the ECHR, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Conveyancing solicitors divided over impact of regulator 'shopping list'

Conveyancing solicitors are divided over the impact of being able to choose a regulator, after the Legal Services Board approved an application by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) to regulate ABSs.

Bad influence

Increasing control over expert evidence in criminal trials will make justice more costly and less accessible, argues Finola Moss