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Double grovel, toil and trouble

My bank has just bounced one of my client account cheques. Just a few words but the consequences are horrific. Why did they do this? In 31 years of practice no client account cheque of mine has ever been dishonoured. At the time that the cheque was not met I had in the region of one million pounds in the client account. So why was the bank behaving in this very curious fashion? We live in strange times but surely some things remain sacred?

A prejudiced rehearsal?

Keith Wilding welcomes the less adversarial and more flexible approach taken to welfare benefit fraud prosecution under the new tribunals rules

The recovery position

The current climate is likely to create more work for litigators but lawyers themselves could increasingly end up as defendants in professional negligence claims brought by lenders, says Georgina Squire

Update: family (children)

Lord Laming's latest report on England's child protection system highlights ongoing deficiencies in the system and advocates, among other recommendations, the abolition of court fees. Noel Arnold reviews the findings

Emission control

Ellie Watson explains how the ambitious targets set by the Carbon Reduction Commitment will be met in practice and what it will mean for landlords and tenants

I will survive

Survivorship clauses have outlived their usefulness and they could now make the inheritance tax position substantially worse, says Malcolm Finney

The silk route

There is pressure to but few women are applying for silk and more can be done to increase diversity, says Kate Thirlwall QC

Rules of engagement

DJ Paul Mildred reviews the procedure for challenging the court's jurisdiction and the latest CPR updates