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All things being equal

In promoting equality and diversity, the SRA needs to rethink its targets for investigation and how it identifies risk, say Yamini Paramesan and Michelle Garlick

Reaching 50 not out

Three different ways of celebrating his firm reaching 50 years of existence includes Italian cookery lessons, a day at the races and solving a murder, says Russell Conway

Update: family law

Liz Dronfield reviews the latest children law cases relating to disclosure of information, local authority decisions not to issue care proceedings, contempt of court and placement orders

Civil litigation brief

The changes introduced by the new Civil Procedure Rules relating to correct address for service have raised problems and uncertainties, says Gordon Exall

It's a long, unclear story

The House of Lords has referred O'Byrne to the Court of Justice for a second time, but are we expecting too much by insisting on absolute clarity from the ECJ, asks David Scannell

Testaments sans frontières

Where preparation of a will raises cross-border issues, practitioners must dig deep to determine and correctly deal with all the jurisdictional factors, says Richard Frimston

The traveller's saviour

The courts have sensibly construed section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, allowing consumers the right to claim against credit card issuers for cancelled flights even when purchased abroad, says Daniel M Collins

Branded a criminal

Entering the US can be an ordeal, particularly for those who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law in the past, says Steven Heller