Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7496

Olswang has announced that Graham Lloyd-Brunt is joining its real estate team from BLP, where he has been a partner for seven years.

Sacker & Partners LLP has promoted Caroline Legg from associate director to partner.

HLE Blogger & NLJ consultant editor David Greene recounts the experiences of a civil litigator in the criminal court

Knock-on expenses will undermine government targets

PM refuses to play it safe with PI lawyers & unions

Natural England is now able to impose civil sanctions

Family law clients to be hit heavily by legal aid cuts

Family Justice Council produce new guidelines on children giving live evidence in family proceedings

Justice Edwin Cameron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, a leading human rights lawyer during the apartheid era, is giving the Leslie Scarman lecture in London on 25 January.

Law Society highlights the dangers of Facebook to its members