Film 100

Frances Gibb: the internet and the super-injunction

The recent clash between the courts, media and Parliament over the Trafigura injunction has exposed the latest enemy of press freedom

In the City: you have a dispute. Are lawyers the solution?

Litigation might be booming but how did everyone at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' annual mediation symposium answer the question?

David Pannick: putting handcuffs on literature

Victims will not receive a penny from the restrictions on the publication of criminal memoirs - the Exchequer will keep any money received

Weird Cases: 'Please, send me back to jail'

Unable to take his wife's nagging, a Sicilian man pleads with authorities to end his house arrest

In the City: a bar to business?

Might a side-effect of the liberalising Legal Services Act be an opening up of the market for professional indemnity insurance?

Frances Gibb: a secret injustice?

When it comes to secret inquests in the Coroners and Justice Bill, Jack Straw was always going to try to find a different way to skin the same cat

Weird Cases: the Pilates prostitute

A blind lawyer asks a court to consider the difference between sex and Pilates

In the City: see you in the High Court?

More than 56 per cent of reported High Court appearances by FTSE 100 companies in the past year involved financial services companies

David Pannick: MPs don't have a leg to stand on

Members of Parliament who want to challenge Sir Thomas Legg's review would be well advised to focus on politics and not the law

Frances Gibb: whither the Human Rights Act?

The main political parties have pledged reform, so a debate between Dominic Grieve and Charlie Falconer was a useful pre-election skirmish

Weird Cases: hijacking a legal career

Does shooting someone in the back mean you can't be a good lawyer?

In the City: waiting patiently until next May . . .

And who will be sitting in the senior partner hot seat at Herbert Smith now that David Gold has decided to call it a day?

Frances Gibb: legal aid cuts

Lawyers believe it is impossible to impose cuts without risking miscarriages of justice and reducing access to justice in civil cases

Weird Cases: suing yourself

A council is in the unfortunate position of having to sue itself after building a school playing field without permission

David Pannick: choosing the cream of the crop

Why the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court deserves almost as much attention as the appointment of a judge to Strictly Come Dancing

In the City: are British law firms really that skint?

Frances Gibb: one size does not fit all

City lawyers are pleased that Lord Hunt of Wirral has given them exactly what they want in his report on how the profession should police itself