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Brian Bacon considers the reasons behind the increase in statutory wills

Commons to hold human rights debate next week

Article 8 is a qualified right, home secretary says

Previous experience requirement not age discrimination

Difference in treatment of cabin crew based on date of recruitment excluding years of service with sister company is not discriminatory

Editor's blog | The good and the not so good about third-party complaints

The consumer panel's valid concerns fall down on the lack of unified liability principle

When can you safely terminate a retainer?

Before suspending work for a client who refuses to pay, solicitors must ensure that 'their terms of business clearly provide them with adequate rights to do so, 'say Bernard Livesey QC and Joshua Munro

Stealth tactics: making unfair dismissal worthless

Having found that it could not politically do away with unfair dismissal outright, the government now wants 'to – quietly – make it worthless, says Anya Palmer

High Court blocks plans to split up Conan Doyle house

Legal flaws in council decision to grant planning permission, Cranston J says

Civil conduct | Is mediation worth the money?

The Court of Appeal has stressed that there are legitimate circumstances when mediation ?is not appropriate, but if a party is found to have unreasonably refused to mediate they ?may be penalised on costs, warn John Bramhall and Melissa Jones