All Law Gazette articles in 12 October 2020
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OpinionWhat's your USP in the race to keep clients?
Business Development: A Practical Handbook for Lawyers, Second Edition | Consulting editor(s): Stephen Revell, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, on behalf of the International Bar Association
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NewsTrials listed for 2022 as Crown court backlog approaches 50,000
HMCTS struggles to ensure that trials can be accommodated under ongoing restrictions.
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NewsSelf-representation may have inflated £10m unexplained wealth order
Businessman could have compromised his position by representing himself in negotiations, say specialist lawyers.
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OpinionPorridge is off: a recipe for alternative justice
Crime, along with the debate about justice in wider society, never goes away.
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NewsRecorder appointments show encouraging signs of law firm support
Latest list suggests City firms are seeing advantages of supporting partners in judicial ambitions.
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FeatureThe ins and outs of local authority lockdowns
England has been here before, of course – but worse.
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NewsBig flipper
Legal community mobilises itself in creative ways to raise funds for free legal support.
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FeatureBright sparks
As law firms reinvent their working practices to absorb the impact of Covid-19, their ability to choose and invest wisely in technology has come under greater scrutiny.
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OpinionFirst port of call on solicitor liabilities
The Law of Solicitors’ Liabilities (4th edition)
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FeatureWhen rights came home
With another lord chancellor gunning for the 20-year-old Human Rights Act, how do lawyers evaluate its legacy? Melanie Newman reports.
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NewsConveyancers warned of letters causing delays
Mortgage lender says unnecessary correspondence can be avoided by checking handbook guidance.
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OpinionCulture clubbed
Though governed by the most authoritarian government in recent history, fiction must be maintained that real power lies elsewhere: the legal profession.
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OpinionWitness evidence and the malleability of memory
Do you have a good memory? Would you remember who said what at a big meeting four years ago? Are you sure?
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NewsNews focus: What explains a spate of law firm mergers?
Against a background of Covid-19, merger activity this year is not seen as a last resort.
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ProfileMy legal life: Michael Herford, Legal Lifelines
Consultant solicitor specialising in criminal law and founder of Legal Lifelines.
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NewsPeaky Rinder
Charity Shelter appoints criminal barrister Robert Rinder to be its first ‘legal services ambassador’.
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NewsHMCTS: don't come to court if you have Covid
HM Courts & Tribunals Service acknowledges that public health legislation permits court users to come out of self-isolation.