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Can Face2Face Solicitors really call itself a franchise? asks Stuart Bushell

Update: environment

Adrienne Copithorne considers the Habitats Directive, environmental impact assessments and European court rulings on NGOs and demolition works

Resident evil

Richard Jordan explains how to avoid residency traps when taking up employment abroad

Update: clinical negligence

Dr Jock Mackenzie considers the latest rulings on a GP's duty during youth referrals and looks at how two obstetric cases have shed light on...

Costume drama

I was recently on a train journey, dressed in my 'normal' clothes and flicking through a legal mag when a po-faced lady sitting opposite me...

'No low level' for asbestos exposure after Supreme Court ruling

The Supreme Court has held that employers are liable for mesothelioma contracted by their staff even if exposure to asbestos was “very small”.

Warnings over conveyancing 'consultants'

More than 600 law firms have applied to join the Law Society's conveyancing scheme (CQS). A spokesman for the society said that, by the end...

Regulator not expecting ABS 'deluge'

Only a small number of law firms and other organisations will be applying to become alternative business structures by ABS day, the Solicitors Regulation Authority...