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Judges to hear applications to withdraw life-sustaining treatment in public

Cases concerned with the withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment from patients in a minimally conscious or vegetative state should all be heard by the Court of Protection and should be heard in public, a senior judge ruled this morning as he refused an application by the family of a woman who has been in this condition since February 2003.

Disappointment as government shelves cohabitation reform

No evidence that change is urgently needed, justice minister says

Generation gap

The LPC equips young lawyers for the commercial world but leaves them without fully developed family law skills, says Marilyn Stowe as she despairs of her potential trainees

Fraudulent will writer jailed

A fraudulent will writer has been jailed for 14 months. Walter Ventriglia, who pleaded guilty to fraudulent trading at Reading Crown Court, received money from around 100 to 130 clients.

Update: divorce

Malta was one of the last countries not to have divorce laws until the island voted in favour in a referendum in May. Austin Chessell reports

Appeal judges rewrite relocation guidance

Moore-Bick LJ says welfare of the child is 'paramount' in leave to remove applications

Falling on deaf ears

Despite more than 5,000 responses to the government's consultation, the legal aid bill offers few concessions. If enacted, it could deprive nearly 70 per cent of people currently eligible for legal aid of access to justice. According to the figures collated by the Legal Action Group, Liverpool, one of Britain's most deprived areas, is set to lose 80 per cent of its casework.

Father secures return of abducted child

Supreme Court reverses assumption that Hague Convention countries have effective protection measures