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New justice disappoints campaigners

Lord Justice Dyson is to become the twelfth Justice of the Supreme Court, the prime minister has announced.

SRA unveils pathway to ABS 'big bang'

A new 'outcomes-focused' approach will provide more effective regulation for law firms big and small, the Solicitors Regulation Authority announced as it launched 'Freedom in Practice' last week, the project which sets out the regulator's pathway to the opening up of the legal services market to ABSs in October 2011.

Luxury brands lose Google challenge

A group of luxury brands led by Louis Vuitton has lost the European round of its claim against Google that the search engine had breached their trademark rights.

Lords to debate libel crackdown

The House of Lords is to debate the government's controversial cut in success fees for conditional fee libel actions later this week.

Culture clash

The number of cases of international child abduction is rising, but in which country should proceedings take place and what rights does each parent have? Henry Brookman reports

Straw scraps court fees for care proceedings

In an extraordinary U-turn, justice secretary Jack Straw has decided to scrap the court fees paid by councils for care proceedings.

Dubious privilege

Challenges to the 'without prejudice' rule continue to come thick and fast. Andrew Butler considers where three recent authorities have left the principle

Setting a new course

Parties to divorce proceedings can rely on an increasing number of remedies outside the traditional sphere of ancillary relief to secure their rights, say Amy Radnor and Grant Howell