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Hole in the wall

Where does the case of Kaye leave security for party wall works? ask Andrew Smith and Stephen Bickford-Smith

Update: insolvency

There have been fewer insolvencies than expected, but it has still been a busy year for the courts, says David Archer

The state we're in

The property market won't pick up until the debris of the financial crisis is cleared and lenders regain confidence, so what does the future hold for conveyancers? Brian Chrystal investigates

Update: housing

Victoria Pogge von Strandmann rounds up the year's key cases affecting the accommodation of children

Naming and shaming by LeO 'might encourage serial complainants'

Publishing details of complaints handled by the Legal Ombudsman is attracting growing support, with 82 per cent of respondents to an instant poll carried out following an evidence session in the House of Lords voting in favour.

Bring back authority, says senior family judge

The problems facing the family justice system are due not so much to the rise in family breakdowns as to the family courts' declining authority in the past 20 years, a senior family judge has said.

Appeal judges rebuke divorcing couple over expensive privacy row

Divorcing couples should not use the threat of publication of a court ruling as an aid to enforcement of ancillary relief decisions, the Court of Appeal has said as it overturned a judgment granting a shipping tycoon anonymity.

Strasbourg deluged by 2,500 applications from UK prisoners

The European Court of Human Rights has received 2,500 applications from convicted prisoners in the UK claiming their human rights have been breached because they are banned from voting in elections.