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Update: consumer

Bryan Nott reviews the latest cases on payment protection insurance mis-selling, total charge for credit, pre-action discovery and solicitors' breach of duty

Update: crime

Ian Harris and David Birrell discuss magistrates' unreasonable indication, directions of law, sentencing guidelines, trial by ambush, proposals for a compulsory advocacy accreditation schemeand the Bribery Act

It ain't over 'til the DJ sings

So, you believe you've brought the litigation to an end? Think again, says DJ Tim Jenkins

Hitting the wrong note

It is September, and a new academic year. Are we all chirpy and refreshed? Have we got shiny new pencil cases, sharp HB pencils and a bag of novelty rubbers shaped like hippos and penguins? New shoes, new notebooks, and, if we are lucky enough and grew more than expected, a school skirt to hitch up into a proper mini...

Djanogly 'not going to get the chop' for calling in private investigators

Legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly is expected to cling onto his job despite admitting he paid private investigators £5,000 to monitor his colleagues.

High street firms ramp up fight against Tesco law

QualitySolicitors, the umbrella organisation feder-ating about 200 high street firms, has set up a partnership with financial adviser group AWD Chase de Vere in a move to consolidate the position of its members ahead of the impending Tesco law era.

Firm loses legal aid judicial review

A London firm specialising in immigration law this morning lost its judicial review challenge to the LSC's civil contract tender round at the Court of Appeal.

Boundary dispute edges towards Supreme Court

The dispute opposing two neighbours over the boundary line separating their properties could be heard by the Supreme Court, Solicitors Journal has learned.