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Split decision

Guidance on split hearings from the president of the Family Division provides welcome clarification and will prevent unnecessary confrontation, says DJ Michael Buckley

The big impression

Worried about renewing your professional indemnity insurance this year? Carefully preparing your PI proposal early and choosing the right broker will help impress potential insurers,...

Bad reception

By confirming the 'reception directive' covers subsequent as well as initial asylum claims, the Supreme Court has brought welcome news to those previously denied the...

Update: commercial property

Paired-down perpetuities law is a welcome step, but the courts have left us wanting in the Good Harvest decision, say Eugene McMahon and Jonathan Ross

Update: personal tax and trusts

Hastings-Bass is the rule that keeps on giving, says David Bird

Beyond reasonable belief

If you use the Mental Health Act, writes David Hewitt, it seems you can believe what you like

Normal for Norfolk

Bill Bryson the travel writer confessed in one of his early books that he came from Iowa because “somebody had to”.

Clients from hell

Handbag attacks, chairborne missiles and some good old-fashioned slander - it's all in a day's work for the shop-front solicitor, writes the long-suffering Russell Conway