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1 Dec 2015

'On the 12 days after Christmas'

A remastered version by the Association of Her Majesty's District Judges, with apologies to the lyricist of 'The 12 Days of Christmas'

1 Dec 2015

End of the blame game 'in divorces?

Carla Ditz assesses the present state of the law and the campaign ?to alter the unnecessarily acrimonious route to divorce

1 Dec 2015

SRA hopes to reduce handbook to a meagre 50 pages

Complexity gets in the way of innovation, admits Crispin Passmore

1 Dec 2015

Setting up a trust corporation: 'How to compete with ABSs and banks

Arshoo Singh considers how a law firm-owned trust corporation is used ?and weighs up the benefits and disadvantages of creating one

1 Dec 2015

Who regulates 'the unregulated?

The stakes could not be higher for both the SRA and LSB, given the most likely outcome of the government's review of legal regulation is a single regulator, says Stuart Bushell

1 Dec 2015

The court's new flexible dispute resolution options

Pilot schemes from the Rolls Building offer viable challenges to traditional arbitration, writes Sarah Charig

1 Dec 2015

A 'broad, somewhat philosophical question'

Is bridge a sport? An interested public and press wanted the High Court's answer to this question when it decided the English Bridge Union's (EBU) judicial review of Sport England's (SE) refusal to recognise it as a sport.

30 Nov 2015

Government to reduce barriers for ABSs in legal services

Sir Michael Pitt: Lack of independence between regulators and representative bodies is slowing down reforms