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Lloyds uses search specialists to monitor conveyancing panel

Lloyds TSB, the biggest player in the mortgage market and owner of Halifax, is using property search specialists SearchFlow to help validate its conveyancing panel, it has emerged.

Thief cannot sue uncle who injured him during getaway

A thief who was seriously injured when he fell off the back of a van being driven at high speed by his uncle after the pair had stolen some ladders cannot sue the uncle's insurer for damages.

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.