Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7424

Terrorism Act 2006 (Disapplication of Section 25) Order 2010 (SI 2010/Draft)

Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/1651)

Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing by EEA Practitioners) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
(SI 2010/1673)

First, the now familiar statistics: it lasted 12 years, sat for some 434 days, at a total cost of £191m and finally published this month, 38 years after 13 people were shot dead by the British Army on 30 January 1972. So was Lord Saville’s inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday really worth it?

Let us begin with the good news. This is the first of three articles on the coalition government’s policy relating to the law and the constitution. We start with civil liberties. There has been a lot of talk about whether the budget will be a “game changer”: the coalition’s programme for action on civil liberties certainly is. David Blunkett and John Reid, the most macho of Labour home secretaries, should be turning in their political graves. The coalition’s policy on civil liberties says as much about their failure as it does about the coalition’s own success.

Juliet Carp reports on how to manage employee business connections

Written evidence of agreements remains the most reliable proof of intention, says Laura Bednall

Nick Knapman discusses break notices—a topic likely to get property solicitors’ hearts racing

Paul Denholm offers advice on coping with a planning regime in flux

Gibb v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2010] EWCA Civ 678