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Local government update

Kim Howell asks whether downsizing in austerity is an obligation or an opportunity

Residential property update

Glenda Ferneyhough discusses off-plan properties, registration of public grounds and Japanese knotweed

There is no right or wrong path into law

Freshers starting at university this autumn do not have their fate set in stone, explains Kate Davies

SJ about town

Press embargoes, rewrites and black-tie dinners

Simon Hughes MP vows to keep Human Rights Act and provide access to justice

Lawyers criticise Conservative proposals to scrap HRA which contain "a number of howlers" and "do not stand up to scrutiny"

Family court experts face new standards test

Expert evidence only permitted where a judge considers it necessary

Give them an inch!

Matthew Howson has a look at some of the finer points of two new powers the government is proposing to grant to HMRC; one very well known, one not so

Trashing human rights

Conservatives confirm plans to scrap Human Rights Act and replace it with a 'Bill of Rights'. John van der Luit-Drummond reports on the reaction from the legal profession