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Guiding light

The new sentencing guidelines are designed to ensure consistency and transparency, and give equal weight to both harm and culpability, argues Rosalind Campion as she rebuffs Jeannie Mackie's criticism

Update: licensing

Roy Light reviews the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, appeals in the magistrates' courts, and the latest books licensing practitioners should have on their shelves

Something for nothing

It's all very shiny and new, yes, but what does this National Pro Bono Centre actually do, asks Russell Conway

Update: health and safety

We need education on the Health and Safety Regulations not reform of the law, argues Zahra Nanji

Peter Coonan loses conviction review

Peter Coonan has lost his appeal against the 1981 ruling that sentenced him to life imprisonment for the murders of 13 women.

Council loses trampled flowers libel case

Slough Borough Council has lost a libel case against a local woman who complained about people deliberately trampling flowers in a park and ended up being entered on the council's 'violent persons register'.

Standby for reboot

Technology could be just the thing to ease you through the Legal Services Act upheaval, says Damian Blackburn

Belt tightening

As penniless politicians become increasingly hostile to trusts, tax planners are facing tough times ahead, say Rosamond McDowell and Ceri Norman-Short