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Resisting temptation

Do not be tempted to dismiss the LSB's changes to outcomes-focused regulation as unimportant, warns Susanna Heley

Holding court

The trials and tribulations of a criminal legal aid barrister

Bad apple days

Looking at the recent behaviour of many journalists and MPs, the public should realise us fat-cat lawyers aren't so bad after all, says Felix

Seeing the light

The Industrial Revolution was an explosion of new inventions and innovations that provoked widespread industrial change, transforming Britain from a predominantly agricultural country to an...

Back to square one

After six years of battling over a disclosure case, the ECJ has failed to make any significant progress over the issue of access to official...

Life line

Is life being breathed into inheritance tax? Stephen Barratt considers the latest changes to the rules

Legal purgatory

Trainee Elizabeth Thomas waxes satirical

Public Guardian in second attempt to recruit non-lawyer deputies

The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is making a second attempt to replace solicitors as deputies with cheaper lay representatives from charities.