Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7503

A hands-off approach serves the litigation funding market well, says Angus Nurse

R (on the application of HA) v Hillingdon London Borough [2012] EWHC 291 (Admin), [2012] All ER (D) 134 (Feb)

Dockerill and another (minors by their litigation friend) v Tullett; Macefield (a minor by his litigation friend) v Bakos; Tubridy (by her litigation friend) v Sarwar [2012] EWCA Civ 184, [2012] All ER (D) 167 (Feb)

R (on the application of Aldhouse) v Royal Government of Thailand and another [2012] EWHC 191 (Admin), [2012] All ER (D) 139 (Feb)

City of London Corporation v Samede and others [2012] EWCA Civ 160, [2012] All ER (D) 153 (Feb)

Lloyds TSB Bank plc v Markandan & Uddin [2012] EWCA Civ 65, [2012] All ER (D) 62 (Feb)

R v Gul [2012] EWCA Crim 280, [2012] All ER (D) 141 (Feb)

Hall and another v Bull and another [2012] EWCA Civ 83, [2012] All ER (D) 73 (Feb)

Geoffrey Bindman QC celebrates Daniel Isaac Eaton: a champion of free expression

HLE blogger Simon Hetherington ponders the sentence for the Croydon arsonist