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Compulsory mediation awareness sessions for all divorcing couples

All divorcing couples will have to attend mediation awareness sessions, not just those on legal aid, justice minister Jonathan Djanogly has announced.

Police minister boost for restorative justice

Restorative justice should be “embedded in and operating at every part of the criminal justice system”, police and criminal justice minister Nick Herbert has said in the clearest endorsement so far of the government's support for this alternative mechanism.

Cornish pasties win protected status

Cornish pasties made in Cornwall and based on a traditional recipe won protected status from the European Commission today.

Divorced from reality

Fresh from an Oxbridge eye-opener, Marilyn Stowe wonders how stuck in the past the future will be

The sunny side of the street

If you were left deflated by last week's prediction that conveyancing will be lawyer-free by 2020, fear not. Property optimist Jonathan Smithers is on hand to rebuild hope

Critical list

With a three-pronged funding fiasco on the cards and spiralling NHS payouts, it really is time health chiefs stopped repeating their mistakes, argues Philippa Luscombe

Campbell's soup

As the death knell sounds for CFAs, James Harrison and Clare Arthurs measure up the supermodel's legal legacy

Separation of powers

Are we witnessing the appointment of a fall guy in the Law Society's approach to ABS regulation? Mike Scutt suspects so