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Protecting lessees against market losses

Buildings insurance only covers rebuilding costs, not market value; but what if a building cannot be rebuilt and leaves the lessee with a huge shortfall, asks Howard Salter

Balva was third biggest indemnity insurer

Law Society includes unrated insurers in guide but gives warnings

Divide and rule

So, the justice secretary likes solicitors and is fed up with barristers. Chris Grayling's appearance at this morning's justice select committee could not have gone any worse as far as the Bar is concerned. Not only was the Bar failing to respond properly to his plans or to co-operate on quality standards, there were too many criminal legal aid barristers and a lot of them were "struggling to get enough work".

Grayling sides with solicitors and attacks barristers on criminal legal aid

Fresh consultation to be launched in September after 'detailed talks' with Law Society

Editor's blog | The predictable LETR paradox

There is a strange but perhaps predictable paradox at the heart of the Legal Education and Training Review. It took two years to produce, and 350 pages later comes up with a set of recommendations that everybody seemed to be expecting and few of which – if any – are in fact proposing any major changes to the current system.

SRA and MoJ 'must get their heads together' on inducements

'Simply unacceptable' that higher standards imposed on CMCs than solicitors

Julian Webb: LETR changes are more than 'tweaks' to the system

Incremental change will equal more than the sum of its parts, including an overhaul of CPD and a focusing on outcomes-focused learning says Webb

Legal Education and Training Review: new beginnings or missed opportunity?

Two years in the making and 350 pages later, the report produced by the Legal Education and Training Review team has come out with the not-so-radical conclusion that professional standards are pretty good. There are undoubtedly some worthwhile recommendations, including scrapping minimum CPD hours and encouraging the regulators to provide alternative access routes. But is it, as the Consumer Panel has said, a missed opportunity? We asked stakeholders for their reaction