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Summer in Yale

Elizabeth Watts, trainee solicitor at Hempsons, is taking time out of her traineeship to spend two months over the summer at the Yale Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioethics. She will be writing fortnightly posts on her experiences for Solicitors Journal

Smoke signals

Don't think you can escape that easily. When you retire from the stress of the office to tend your roses do not expect a peaceful life, for the anxiety caused by a sick rose causes no less angst than the managing partner visiting you with a crocodile smile and telling you that for the third month running you failed to meet your target. So, what is it like if you have not retired and still have to tend your roses?

Update: crime

Ian Harris and Christopher Gutteridge review negotiated pleas and sentence agreements, evidence by video link, Facebook evidence, harassment under the Public Order Act 1986, the 'hypothetical bystander' standard and the prohibition on carrying knives

Care home campaigner loses Strasbourg appeal

Yvonne Hossack, the solicitor campaigning for the rights of the elderly, has lost a key appeal at the European Court of Human Rights in her battle against the closure of care homes.

Consumers left out of third party litigation funds

Third party litigation funding will not plug any gaps in access to justice, according to the first academic study on the issue.

Court of Appeal uncaps wrongful dismissal compensation levels

A dismissal dispute between a surgeon and his hospital could pave the way for multi-million pound compensation claims as prior limitations are overturned.

MoJ drops new prison as cuts begin to bite

The MoJ has abandoned plans to build a new juvenile prison in Leicester and postponed construction of a new Birimingham Magistrates Court as part of the £325m package of cuts announced last week.

Growing pains

Last week's rape trial shows a youth justice review is not enough – we need to rip up the whole system and start again, say campaigners. Ailsa Dixon reports