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Seeing the light

The Industrial Revolution was an explosion of new inventions and innovations that provoked widespread industrial change, transforming Britain from a predominantly agricultural country to an industrial one. In an age of imperial expansion, new sources of prosperity and ceaseless manufacturing, Victorian social reformers called for better public sanitation and street lighting as the population of its towns and cities multiplied rapidly.

Bad apple days

Looking at the recent behaviour of many journalists and MPs, the public should realise us fat-cat lawyers aren't so bad after all, says Felix

Holding court

The trials and tribulations of a criminal legal aid barrister

Life line

Is life being breathed into inheritance tax? Stephen Barratt considers the latest changes to the rules

Legal purgatory

Trainee Elizabeth Thomas waxes satirical

Public Guardian in second attempt to recruit non-lawyer deputies

The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is making a second attempt to replace solicitors as deputies with cheaper lay representatives from charities.

Solicitors have 'different views' on ABS, Wotton says

Solicitors have “many different views” on the impact of ABS, John Wotton, the new president of the Law Society, has told the American Bar Association.

Home sweet home

The beleaguered UK care industry is in desperate need of relief, but will the government give a warm welcome to proposals for reform? Natalie Boorer reports