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Badge of honour

As local authorities begin to use their new-found powers to apply for 'gang injunctions', Rebecca Chan and Sarah Salmon ask whether they will ever prove...

Update: wills and probate

Helen Bryant rounds up the latest developments, including an intestate polygamist and a couple who were so close they accidently signed each other's wills

Update: professional negligence

Victoria Brackett and Sophie Davies consider immunity from suit for experts, scope of duty for solicitors, and a recent shot in the arm for brokers

Green grass

There's nothing like a spot of comparative law to rekindle respect for our criminal justice system, writes Benjamin Newton

Meeting of minds

EXCLUSIVE! The words 'interesting' and 'conference' aren't always mutually exclusive, reveals Marilyn Stowe

Law on the air

There are probably a few dozen of us who do it up and down the country. From time to time we creep into darkened rooms,...

Cracking the Crema egg

The Court of Appeal has decided market practice may be of use in contractual interpretation after all. So what should you do about it? Georgina...

Safety is not an 'unchanging concept'

Lord Mance has ruled that whether a factory is safe should be assessed by the “standards of the time” and there is “no such thing...