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Cohabitation reforms 'could generate 10,000 extra cases a year'

2026-08-11T13:19:00+01:00By 2 comments

Deputy national lead judge of Financial Remedies Court estimates a substantial increase in caseload.

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The global elite’s development of proprietary artificial intelligence tools dominates legal tech headlines, but AI is also transforming law’s mid-market. Joanna Goodman reports from the Gazette’s latest roundtable discussion.

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Police forces are attempting their own gags when sending out press releases on matters that hardly call for humour.

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Rumour mill led to murder charge

75 years before solicitors Harold Greenwood and Major Armstrong were accused of murder, Edmond Edmonds was charged with the murder of his wife.

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