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Alternative investment: all that glitters isn't gold

Jonathan Silverman reviews key steps to protect clients interested in being involved in alternative investment schemes

Regulators at loggerheads over QASA

The Bar Standards Board has hit out at “last-minute” proposals from the SRA, which “may allow judicial evaluation to be bypassed” in the new quality assurance scheme for criminal advocates (QASA).

Breaking dawn

Will 2012 herald a new era in the delivery of legal services in the UK? David Mort looks at the direction the industry will take

Partners need to become less risk averse in the law firms of tomorrow

By Tim Aspinall, Managing Partner, DMH Stallard

Face off

?Kevin Masterton considers the relationship between ?trust practitioners and ?investment managers

Ministers make 'minimal' concessions on legal aid

The government has made two minor, widely-trailed, concessions on the legal aid bill, which is to return to the House of Lords next week for its report stage.

Planning permission 'cannot authorise' nuisance, Jackson LJ says

The grant of planning permission “cannot authorise the commission of a nuisance”, Lord Justice Jackson has said.

For whom the bell tolls

Mishcon de Reya's private client head James Libson explains how the firm has rung the changes to move with the times