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Health check

Clive Bolton number crunches the long-term care funding conundrum

Palamon Capital Partners buys QualitySolicitors

First nationwide legal franchise sold to private equity just two years after it was set up

The show is almost over for Miss QS

QualitySolicitors will almost certainly axe its animated puppet-style 'Miss QS' in a new multi-million pound marketing campaign launched next year, Solicitors Journal has learned.

The show is almost over for Miss QS

QualitySolicitors will almost certainly axe its animated puppet-style 'Miss QS' in a new multi-million pound marketing campaign launched next year, Solicitors Journal has learned.

Black hole

Avoid the problems of Court of Protection deputyships with a lasting power of attorney, says Sharon Richardson

Shooting star

Cayman STAR trusts are gaining in popularity as trustees and advisers recognise increasingly their long-term value for family businesses

Society calls for pause in legal aid bill after Djanogly row

Des Hudson, chief executive of the Law Society, has called for a pause in the passage of the legal aid bill following the rumpus over justice minister Jonathan Djanogly's family link to claims management companies.

'Overwhelming obligation' on courts to protect the public, LCJ says

There is an "overwhelming obligation" on the courts to protect the public, the Lord Chief Justice has said, giving the Court of Appeal's long-awaited judgment on ten appeals against sentences imposed after August's riots.