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Competition law: LSB warns 'Watch this space' on investigating law firm mergers

LSB chair Sir Michael Pitt speaks to LCA community manager Leah Darbyshire on tie ups between regulator and government and risk-based approaches to regulation

SRA gives legal firms more freedom as it binds solicitors to core professional standards

New regulatory model does away with prescriptive rules in favour of principles

Bar Council seeks views on pupillage gateway date change

Students, recruiters, and chambers called upon to respond to proposals

Testing discretion

Saara Idelbi discusses the scope of the powers and duties of the domestic and European courts in relation to data protection, and of the bodies responsible for regulating and monitoring healthcare professionals

Banging the legal aid, human rights, and diversity drums

Law Society president Jonathan Smithers talks to John van der Luit-Drummond about firefighting some of the most difficult issues Chancery Lane has ever had to face

CLC chair calls for genuine free choice of regulator

There is still 'unfinished business' from implementation of the Legal Services Act

Law Society president calls for parley between MoJ and criminal solicitors

An independent review into the 'flawed' legal aid duty contract procurement process more cost effective than mass litigation, says Jonathan Smithers

MoJ should focus on the financial market CMCs in review, says First4Lawyers

Insurance industry told to put its house in order and take a zero-tolerance approach to challenging dubious claims