Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7402

Commission’s recommendation to reduce shareholding upheld

To Jackson LJ access to justice is “the ability of a person to obtain legal advice and representation, and to secure the adjudication through the courts of their legal rights and obligations,” and that is to be achieved at proportionate cost.

The tragic case of Rom Houben, the 46-year-old Belgian man who was mistakenly and wrongly assumed to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for 23 years, raises a number of profound legal medical and ethical issues, including the accuracy of diagnosing the condition, the desirability of keeping patients alive in this “twilight” existence, and the implications of continuing to treat such patients.

Part 1: Consulting on redundancy & TUPE transfers by Dr John McMullen

Tanya Roberts & Sarah Jane Boon ask whether the media’s gain will be at the expense of the privacy of the individual?

David Regan considers the malleability of the language of causation

When should administrators pay the rent? by Willie Manners & Eleanor Morgan

When you “notify” do you also “inform”? asks Nicholas Dobson

The ECJ decision in West Tankers has been confirmed, say David Howell, Sarah Thomas & Ina Jahn

Roger Smithers resolves some Pt 52 conundrums