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Seal of approval

Susanna Heley explains the SRA's tough authorisation process Historically, there was little regulatory formality in setting up a law firm. Solicitors with more than three...

Making waves

Has the SRA managed to please all parties with its ARP shakedown? Michelle Garlick reports

Learning the game

Sebastian Chrispin's City seat shenanigans

Cross country

William Joyce, better remembered by the name Lord Haw Haw because of his nasal drawl, spent the duration of the Second Word War broadcasting Nazi...

Update: personal injury

Vijay Ganapathy considers the duty of care owed by a parent company to the employees of its subsidiaries, the dangers of expert shopping and withdrawal...

Report acknowledges difficulties in enforcing super-injunctions on websites

Enforcing a super-injunction on a website was a “more difficult” challenge but the resulting breach was “by no means the same intrusion of privacy as...

ABS countdown

Stuart Bushell gets us ready for the LSA's big bang

Clarke's 50 per cent discount plan 'to be ditched'

Justice secretary Ken Clarke's plans to increase the discount on sentences for early guilty pleas from a third to 50 per cent will be ditched,...