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Update: police
Solicitors Journal

Update: police

The decision to suspend stop-and-search powers is just the tip of the iceberg in a year full of significant developments in police law, writes Sophie Khan
Update: media
Solicitors Journal

Update: media

Rod Dadak considers the potential reform of defamation and privacy laws, the status of the fair comment defence and a case on qualified privilege involving allegations of police corruption
Finding fault
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Finding fault

When does a tort of strict liability require fault? When you're a psychiatric patient, writes Laura Davidson
Tough call
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Tough call

Can a few unsourced text messages really build a case for bad character? Benjamin Newton reports
Electric dreams
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Electric dreams

As the e-conveyancing 'revolution' grinds on, land registration expert Mangala Murali considers how far we have come since its inception 12 years ago
Boy in the corner
Solicitors Journal

Boy in the corner

The notion that the Supreme Court's ruling on a severely disabled boy's right to education has opened the floodgates could not be further from the truth, argues Yvonne Spencer