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Property Focus | The buying and selling game

As the property market is predicted to pick up across Britain, Alec Samuels reviews key cases and legislation on estate agents

Compensation Fund is too tough on lenders, CML claims

Lenders call for single compensation scheme across legal profession

60-second interview: Ziva Robertson

As she settles into her new role, Ziva Robertson wants to follow her new firm's US lead, she tells Jennifer Palmer-Violet

Meet me halfway

What is a mid-shore jurisdiction? Marcus Hinkley discusses the latest addition to the financial world

Lawstore expands in regions as it moves out of London

Alternative to QualitySolicitors slowly expands northwards

Mansfield to set up new chambers as Tooks collapses

Only 15 of 55 barristers from Tooks to join him at Mansfield Chambers

Leniency for drug mules: not just what they've done but who they are

Fairness dictates that judges should take account of family circumstances in the sentencing of drug mules who are sole or primary carers for dependent relatives, says Alured Darlington

Property Focus | Landlords beware: no guarantees after a material variation

The judgment in Topland provides a timely reminder to commercial property landlords and their lawyers who have guarantees in place against their tenants, says Nikolas Ireland