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Update: planning

Jim Ryan and Craig Whelton review the new Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations, the Conservatives' proposals for the planning system, the Infrastructure Planning Commission, acting promptly in judicial review claims, the new PPS5 and an important sewerage connection case

Wood for the trees

The number of merely descriptive revisions brought in by the 51st CPR update masks the presence of a few more significant ones, says DJ Julie Exton

Fashion victim

Russell Conway ponders the pitfalls of legal fashion

Fishy business

As I write this, it is now six hours since the general election was announced and I am already bored with the already overblown news items featuring every conceivable aspect of the forthcoming election. By the time you read this, another week will have passed and election fatigue will have set in for most readers of Solicitors Journal, so I expect that you will now be lying with your head on the last page of the journal, obscuring the latest brilliant offering from David Haldane. But wake up, because not all of this article is about the election.

Axe falls on criminal legal aid advocates

A funding order cutting the fees of criminal legal aid advocates was approved by both houses of Parliament as part of last week's legislative 'wash-up'.

Attorney General's former housekeeper guilty of fraud

Loloahi Tapui, former housekeeper of Attorney General Baroness Scotland, has been convicted of fraud at Southwark Crown Court.

Assisted suicide doctor's bail extended – once again

A former GP who was arrested for paying a patient's airfare to the Dignitas clinic has had his bail extended once again, Solicitors Journal has learned.

Christian nurse loses crucifix case

Shirley Chaplin, a Christian nurse, has lost her discrimination case at an employment tribunal after she was ordered by her hospital to remove a necklace with a small crucifix for health and safety reasons.