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Screening clients: How to decide if you should act for a client

George Wilkinson, risk partner at Ashfords, explores the questions to ask when taking on new clients

Falling short

Why none of the proposed 'alternatives' to the charity tax cap cuts the mustard, by Rhodri Davies

Editor's letter: Listen before it's too late

By Manju Manglani, Editor, Managing Partner

Coalition splits over Beecroft report

A gulf has opened up between the Lib Dems and Conservatives over the extent to which employment laws protecting workers should be scrapped.

Got 'private client' on your advertised list of services? You've committed the first crime of legal marketing, says Nick Jervis

Peter Thornton to become first chief coroner

Judge Peter Thornton QC, a senior circuit judge at the Old Bailey, has been appointed the first ever chief coroner of England and Wales.

Tenants can make successive enfranchisement applications, Lord Neuberger says

The Master of the Rolls has made it clear that tenants wanting to enfranchise under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Development Act 1993 can make successive applications.

Editor's blog | Trainee remuneration and the competence tipping point

Dropping trainee salary to national minimum wage level will create a two-tier training system