Broadly speaking, computer projects make three sorts of news headline. One is the ‘gee-whiz gizmo’ of fond Tomorrow’s World memory. Second is the ‘big brother’ scare story about surveillance or intrusive data-sharing.
Contrary to expectations this is going to be a good year for immigration practitioners.
When considering immigration lawyers’ prospects for 2012 we need to remember a lesson from Frederick Bastiat’s Parable of the Broken Window. Bastiat was a 19th century French economist, who taught us to look at what is seen, and at what is not seen.
As the Gazette briefly reported, the European Commission published its new data protection legislation last week, providing a fresh regulatory structure with which all lawyers and law firms will have to become familiar. I shall focus on that below.
I write in defence of advocates representing mentally ill clients. I am concerned that your article promulgates the common perception that lawyers see mental health advocacy as an ‘easy ride’ in comparison with advocacy in other fields.
We need to fight back against HSBC over its conveyancing panel policy. Upon learning of its decision I emailed our business manager, who replied that it was just as big a shock to him as it was to me, since it was the first he had heard about it.
