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State of the arts

The coalition's recent measures have provided some encouragement for art and culture charities, but without significant changes to the UK's tax regime funding from private donors will remain a precarious effort, says James Carleton

Will power

Fiona Wilson looks back at the key lessons learned from 2010's decisions on disputed wills

Treading carefully

Children should only be taken into care for the right reasons, argues Finola Moss

Employment tribunal claims must be lodged with Acas, Cable says

Business secretary Vince Cable launched plans this morning to cut the number of employment tribunal claims by requiring all of them to be lodged with Acas.

Couple loses claim over surrogate baby

A couple who paid thousands of pounds to a surrogate mother they had met over the internet have lost their legal battle to make her hand over the baby because it would not be in the child's interest.

Update: health and safety

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

Campaign to save civil legal aid boosted by justice committee inquiry

Justice for All, a campaign to save free civil legal advice from disappearing as a result of the government's drastic legal aid cuts, has been launched at the House of Commons.

Update: IT/IP

Susan Singleton considers fresh opinion on the eBay trademark case, the court's approach to copyrighting news clippings and Europe's requirements for R&D development agreements