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29 Jun 2010

Sweet FA

The charities provisions in the new Finance Act are neither fit nor proper, argue Clive Cutbill and Simon Gibb

24 Jun 2010

Non-lawyer will writers to be regulated north of the border

The Scottish Parliament has passed amendments to the Legal Services (Scotland) Bill which will see a regulation body set up to control non-lawyer will writers.

9 Jun 2010

Badger Trust wins appeal over Welsh cull

The Badger Trust has been granted leave to appeal against a High Court decision which cleared the way for a cull in west Wales.

8 Jun 2010

Summer in Yale

Elizabeth Watts, trainee solicitor at Hempsons, is taking time out of her traineeship to spend two months over the summer at the Yale Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioethics. She will be writing fortnightly posts on her experiences for Solicitors Journal

8 Jun 2010

Update: local government

Chaos at the polls, coalition in the Commons and council charges in the courts – it's been a busy couple of months for local government, say Caraline Johnson and Claire Booth

8 Jun 2010

Laying foundations

As Jersey's fledgling foundations system beds down, Alan Binnington asks what assets are in store for the lazy trustee and the power-hungry settlor

8 Jun 2010

Cutting a fine line

The Court of Appeal's latest approach to solicitors' duties highlights the need for practitioners to exercise caution when advising clients, say Laura Taylor and Peter Maguire

3 Jun 2010

Consumers left out of third party litigation funds

Third party litigation funding will not plug any gaps in access to justice, according to the first academic study on the issue.