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Kent: new legal boom for the garden of England?

With mid-sized firms facing unpredented changes, is there a potential risk that clients' needs are likely to be overlooked, asks Jean-Yves Gilg

Picking up the bill

Should shareholders' interests take precedence over the polluter-pays principle? Jean-Yves Gilg reports on the aftermath of the Transco decision

Behind bars: Moving from red to Brown

There is a terrific section in Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook about old lefties and Stalin. Written in the '50s, it is a relentlessly brilliant novel about feminism, politics and madness. One of the central characters, Anna, is a writer who earns her keep on a communist newspaper. Her readers are a literary bunch. They keep sending her short stories accompanied by neat letters asking if they might be suitable for publication. They tend not to be – but she identifies a deep unspoken angst which is their determining theme.

It's not all fair in love and war

The House of Lords in Hello! v OK! has stretched the rules on breach of confidence to an extent yet to be assessed, say Dan Tench and Ashley Hurst

Finding a place in the new legal market

The Carter reforms will not necessarily lead to the supersizing of legal aid firms, argues Penny Owston

Update: Taxation

Richard Bunker discusses the so-called offshore disclosure “amnesty”, private equity groups, the Finance Bill 2007 and other developments

Border trouble

Giving prior agreements supremacy would avoid competing claims being litigated in different EU jurisdictions, says Ian Gascoigne

Holy grail or a hornets' nest?

Charities have much to gain from securing public service delivery contracts but there are also many reasons why they should exercise caution, argues Robert Porter