Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7529

Ian Smith returns from the summer break to swot up on the latest employment decisions

Kim Beatson & Lehna Hewitt track the latest developments surrounding wasted costs orders in family proceedings

The Makro case throws a business rates loophole wide open, says Aidan Briggs

The Nicklinson case confirms the supremacy of Parliament, says Seamus Burns

Paola Fudakowska & Henrietta Mason provide a wills & probate update

Roderick Ramage describes a radical shift in the law on bankruptcy

Unless you are only just back from Mars or Stratford, you will be aware that general damages in personal injury tort cases are rising by 10% with effect from 1 April 2013

French v Carter Lemon Camerons LLP [2012] EWCA Civ 1180, [2012] All ER (D) 14 (Sep)

McClaren v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 2466 (QB), [2012] All ER (D) 22 (Sep)

Expect piggyback litigation in the wake of regulatory intervention warn John Bramhall & Eleanor Mumford-Smith