Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7274

Nature of suspension

A former KGB officer is to be charged with the murder by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said this week.

AIC Ltd v Marine Pilot Ltd [2007] EWHC 1182 (Comm), [2007] All ER (D) 280(May)

To mark the Family Court Reports’ birthday, Jonathan Herring reviews family law cases from the past 20 years

The actions of one man transformed the regulation of the solicitors’ profession, says Geoffrey Bindman

Lawyers are happy, according to a recent survey by recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark

Prisoners’ families face high rates of depression, poverty and housing disruption, with the estimated cost of imprisonment rising by almost a third when the social impact is taken into account, a new report finds.

Veils in court are an affront to open justice, says Barbara Hewson

Nicholas Bevan examines the extent to which local authority funded care affects personal injury awards

Do reality-testing, risk analysis and evaluation offer a new model for co-mediation? asks Tony Allen