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Mobile home on farmland does not have statutory protection

A mobile home brought onto a field near Bromley, Kent, without the permission of the landowner is not protected under the Mobile Homes Act 1983, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

A third of commercial firms considering incorporation

Just under a third of larger commercial firms are considering incorporation as ABS day approaches, a survey by accountants Baker Tilly has found.

SRA chairman suggests single regulator for legal profession

Charles Plant, chairman of the SRA, has suggested that at some point in the future there should be a single regulator for the legal profession.

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

Code of conflict

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

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

In it to win it

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

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