All Law Gazette articles in 11 November 2019
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OpinionLetters roundup - 11 November 2019
‘Gender assassination of men’, email references, and goodbye to a Gazette great: your letters to the editor.
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NewsHide and seek for digital badge
Finding the SRA badge on magic circle firms’ websites involves a certain amount of clicking and scrolling.
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OpinionA ‘cull’ and a coup for KPMG
Big Four outfit plans to ‘cull’ one in 10 partners to save money.
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NewsNews focus: Crumbling courts - the malady lingers on
HMCTS is spending heavily to promote its £1bn courts modernisation programme but two parliamentary committees remain distinctly unimpressed by progress to date.
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NewsWords paper over the cracks
Beautifully drafted press releases are of limited use to lawyers who have to dodge falling plasterboard in court.
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FeatureDeath by a thousand cuts?
Working in legal aid gives solicitors an unparalleled opportunity to help ordinary people, reports Grania Langdon-Down. But where is the next generation coming from in a sector that successive governments have repeatedly clobbered?
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OpinionReform of DBAs is long overdue
New draft rules would push the reset button on damages-based agreements.
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FeatureMindfulness: Dropping into the present
Mindfulness can make better lawyers and kinder colleagues.
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NewsPublic: ‘justice is open enough’
Whitehall focus groups suggest barriers to the justice system are ‘often not thought to be a bad thing’.
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FeatureThe only way is up
Some in the law are happy with the success of schemes to improve the profession’s role in social mobility. But serious problems remain, junior lawyers tell Eduardo Reyes, including the experience of ‘imposter syndrome’ after qualification.
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NewsTories to promise human rights reform to protect ex-soldiers
Amendment to 1998 act to create a presumption against prosecution for historical offences.
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NewsDistrict judge disallows court fee as disbursement
Personal injury firm submitted its business model was not to ask clients to seek fee remission.
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NewsCharity seeks solicitors' help with undocumented migrants
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants wants to find better ways to help people regularise their status.
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NewsJunior lawyers tighten screw on regulator over Welsh language SQE
The Junior Lawyers Division claims access to justice is at risk if the Solicitors Qualifying Exam is not translated into Welsh.