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Lawyers welcome Clarke's sentencing plans

Plans to cut the number of prisoners set out in yesterday's sentencing green paper have been welcomed by lawyers.

Featherstone presses ahead with positive action

Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat MP and equalities minister, is pressing ahead with 'positive action' provisions which would allow employers to give priority to candidates from under-represented groups.

Conveyancers could operate without insurance under latest SRA proposal

The SRA has unveiled a set of radical reforms including scrapping the single renewal rate for professional indemnity insurance, removing financial services work as a compulsory insurance element, and reducing the time firms are allowed in the assigned risks pool – all of which are due to come into effect from October next year.

Naming and shaming by LeO 'might encourage serial complainants'

Publishing details of complaints handled by the Legal Ombudsman is attracting growing support, with 82 per cent of respondents to an instant poll carried out following an evidence session in the House of Lords voting in favour.

Update: housing

Victoria Pogge von Strandmann rounds up the year's key cases affecting the accommodation of children

Update: children

Noel Arnold considers the latest rulings on adoption, hair testing and contact disputes

Taxing times

Anthony Nixon offers a step-by-step guide to the inheritance tax pickle caused by the 2006 reshuffle

Show me the money

Tim Polli investigates what the last recession can teach us about tackling a boom in lender's litigation