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Editor's blog: Cash for honours

Well whaddya know. The first YL of the school year calls a revolution and within minutes (months) students are staging sit-ins (riots) on the streets of Londinium. Nice work comrades!

LeO's plans revive concerns over naming and shaming

Publishing details of complaints handled by the legal services 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.

CPS chief to give evidence to new assisted suicide commission

Keir Starmer QC is one of a dozen high-profile figures due to give evidence to a new commission set up to consider change to assisted suicide laws.

Will in favour of charity invalid, appeal judges confirm

The RSPCA has lost its appeal against a decision invalidating a will in favour of the animal charity because the testator had been coerced into it.

Human rights of sex offenders 'breached by blanket ban'

Banning sex offenders from adopting, fostering or working with children breaches their human rights, an academic at the LSE has argued.

Bring back authority, says senior family judge

The problems facing the family justice system are due not so much to the rise in family breakdowns as to the family courts' declining authority in the past 20 years, a senior family judge has said.

Poor quality

The introduction of a quality assurance scheme in this delicate legal environment would be disastrous, warns Sophie Khan

Future battleground

Giles Peaker examines what's in store for housing law practitioners