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July 26 2007

Number of terrorism-related defamation cases almost triples in a year

July 20 2007

Alexander Maxwell Law Scholarship Trust awards £27,000

July 3 2007

Legal profession admits "Big Bang" will have seismic impact

June 26 2007

Blair: 54% more new laws every year than Thatcher

June 5 2007

Employers threaten crack down on smoking breaks

June 1 2007

Tony Blair's legacy: 20% jump in amount of legislation introduced per year

May 30 2007

Sweet & Maxwell recruiting 50 legal experts as editors of next edition of legal dictionary

May 25 2007

Unjustified police fears of Human Rights Act due to 'lack of training'

May 1 2007

47% of law students expect to work more than 50 hours a week after qualifying as lawyers

01 May 2007

Lord Woolf says that complexity of civil court rules still too high

16 March 2007

Labyrinthine statute continues to confuse Judges two years after coming into force

March 02 2007
Red tape day–businesses need to absorb 74 new statutes and statutory instruments

19 February 2007

UK courts see further decline in the use of Human Rights arguments

25 January 2007

Rise in skiing accidents leaving some skiers without cover

16 November 2006

Cohabiting couples risk losing their home because of failure to decide ownership when purchasing property

10 November 2006

New fraud legislation may not be panacea for white collar trial difficulties

07 November 2006

Rupert Murdoch is highest profile FTSE-100 leader over the last year

18 October 2006

Hutton response to media whitewash

07 October 2006

Human Rights law undermining traditional British freedom of the press to report trials

18 September 2006

Post July 7 reaction dominates press coverage of the legal profession over the last year

27 July 2006

Number of reported defamation cases involving celebrities against newspapers doubles in one year

01 June 2006

Local Government facing legislative onslaught in key areas

05 May 2006

Sweet & Maxwell launch JCT Contracts Digital Service
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