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Update: education

With big change afoot, Anita Chopra and Salima Mawji consider the education bill, the green paper on special educational needs and a High Court discussion...

Update: employment

Sue Ashtiany provides a whistlestop tour of the coalition's latest forays into employment law

Going underground

I had put off typing up this column until I was certain that the world would not come to an apocalyptic end on 21 May....

Fresh concerns over advocacy scheme

The conditional endorsement by the SRA board last week of the report by a joint expert group on the proposed quality assurance scheme for criminal...

Appeal judges end confusion over regional strategies

Developer Cala Homes has failed in a second attempt to overturn a planning statement from communities secretary Eric Pickles, requiring councils to take into account...

Legal aid protests as government prepares to unveil bill

There were protests across the country today during the 'Justice for All' day of action, as the government prepared to unveil a legal aid bill...

Advocacy group asked to rewrite new quality assurance scheme rules

The SRA board has asked the group of experts set up to design a quality advocacy assurance scheme for all criminal advocates to reconsider some...

Bar attacks LSB for failing to ban referral fees for advocates

The Bar Council has said it is “surprised and disappointed” that the LSB failed to ban referral fees.