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'No sacred cows' in family justice review, president warns

The coalition government will swoop on any recommendations posed by the current Family Justice Review to bolster a significant political shift in attitudes to domestic disputes, the president of the Family Division has hinted.

Sharp rise in cost of criminal courts despite cuts and redundancies

The cost of the magistrates' and Crown Courts has risen sharply despite widespread redundancies and millions of pounds in efficiency savings.

Reduced bonus did not make banker discrimination victim

A banker who injured his back in a skiing accident was not a victim of direct disability discrimination because his bonus was reduced to $450,000, the EAT has held.

Concern over leaks from Young report

Solicitors have reacted with concern to leaked proposals from Lord Young's report on health and safety which appeared in the press this weekend.

Napoleon's dynamite

It might be great to be British, but our penal system comes up short, says Lee Glade

One foot in the grave

With the system in turmoil and the future looking no more promising, will family legal aid reach its 70th birthday? David Allison reports

Pulling together

Collective actions have typically been dealt with in an ad hoc and unpredictable manner, but, now that they are rising in popularity, how can solicitors make them work? David Greene explains

Update: planning

Julian Boswall and Suzanne Walford discuss the implications of the coalition government's planning reforms, the Penfold review of non-planning consents, commercially sensitive information submitted with planning applications and a new fetter on planning authorities' discretion on their enforcement powers