Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7408

Ian Smith reports on over-regulation, heresy, and grade one Olympians

Should children be asked to give evidence in family proceedings? David Burrows investigates

Christopher Sharp QC reports on Cobham Hire Services Ltd v Eeles: a year on

Tamsin Cox weighs up the successes & failures of the tenancy deposit scheme three years on

Eddie Craven & Rowan Pennington-Benton examine the judicial pecking order

Jonathan Cohen considers the risks of using improperly obtained evidence

The modern child’s relationship with the mobile phone is complex. He is a provider and a receiver of content, a potential customer, and a potential supplier of goods/services by on-line shopping, transferring media files, etc.

Erich Suter sets out the European view of enforced mediation

Kerry Underwood welcomes the first steps to full contingency fees

Patience, please...Judges are still summarily assessing costs in civil and family cases on the strength of interim hourly guideline rates which came into operation on 1 January 2009.