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Training for today in legal aid

Does a new centralised assessment really address the issues facing the profession, ask Siobhan Taylor-Ward and Gimhani Eriyagolla

Employee emails: No snooper's charter

In B?rbulescu v Romania (Application No 61496/08), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had to determine whether an employer was entitled to monitor an employe';s private electronic communications.

Lord Woolf primed to give keynote at Solicitors Journal Live

Former Master of the Rolls to address delegates on maintaining standards in a modern legal world

What did we get right in 2015?

Russell Conway reflects on the last year and whether the challenges of legal aid work are worth the rewards

LeO publishes new guidance to clarify lawyers' role in conveyancing process

Home buyer's £20,000 bill hits headlines as conveyancing complaints take centre stage

One in eight domestic abuse witnesses 'inappropriately' summoned to court

Witness attendance in magistrates' and crown courts continues to decline

The new lone star state

Claire Bennsion considers what the fallout might be should the UK vote to leave the European Union in the upcoming referendum

Record-high overseas information requests increases burden on financial sector

'Disruptive' and 'expensive' process should lead to increased diligence checks, says RPC partner