Police & Prisons

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Update: consumer

Mark Lucas examines the new consumer White Paper, the OFT's latest moves against Foxtons, and the recently proposed Personal Responsibility Bill

Striking at the roots

Masood Ahmed considers the guidance the courts have provided to those wishing to make strike out applications and how a party can avoid an order...

Changing tack

The modern legal costs industry that was initially created to serve insurers and defendants has, in the space of little more than a decade, undergone...

Best behaviour

As courts increasingly look at the behaviour of parties during mediation proceedings, clients should be advised to cooperate fully and practitioners should ensure they take...

What's wrong with the warrant?

John Bechelet explains the search warrant process and what happens when the police get it wrong

Plugging the gap

As legal aid turns 60, Jon Robins explores possible solutions to the system's failures

Solicitors could be forced out of prison law as LSC wields axe

Solicitors have warned that they could be forced to withdraw from prison law and vulnerable clients could be left unrepresented after the LSC announced a...

Update: road traffic

Robert Sproston and Anjali Krishnan discuss the proposal for reduced speed limits, texting while driving, and cases involving emergency response vehicles, uninsured drivers and fraudulent...