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OpinionPolitics, proportionality and Palestine Action
Was the ban on Palestine Action a proportionate interference with the rights to freedom of expression and assembly?
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OpinionThe opening of the legal year: heavy robes, tourist selfies - and that choir
The swearing in of a new lord chancellor and a service at Westminster Abbey provided an interesting start to term.
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OpinionThe end of misleading headlines
At the heart of defamation law lies a significant legal fiction, namely that an imputation in a ‘publication’ must carry a ‘single meaning’.
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OpinionSetting the bar higher
‘In a world where the United Nations is neutered, where transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, it offers an alternative vision to a world increasingly aligned along axes of brute power and wealth.
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OpinionThe Premier League v Manchester City: Penalty shoot-out
The result of the Premier League’s 'core decision' (in redacted form) in its case against Manchester City is no longer a matter of speculation.
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OpinionNews focus: Many happy returns?
The government envisions a ‘swifter and simpler’ opt-out collective actions regime. An Access to Justice Foundation panel discussion also looked at raising public awareness and class action representatives.
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OpinionThe ECHR is not a constraint on British security. It is one of its foundations
Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest post-war achievements.
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OpinionGlorious statistics and their consequences
Exports are soaring: the legal profession would benefit if our economic contribution to the world economy were better recognised.
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OpinionMother in Law: What is it that I actually enjoy doing?
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
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OpinionMaking mediation mainstream
What happens when mediation ceases to be an alternative to the justice system and becomes part of its architecture?
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OpinionTwo important cases on LPP in Europe and the US
Cases concerning legal professional privilege are going to the highest courts in Europe and the US respectively.
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OpinionMinisters wake up to AI’s existential threat
Two developments have brought artificial intelligence to the top of the political agenda.
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OpinionBreast cancer review must do more than find individual errors
An apology is important but cannot be the end of the process.
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Feature'We will ruin you. Think of your family'
Read an excerpt from John Hyde’s Indefensible. Here Lee Castleton recalls his first contact with a Post Office lawyer.
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OpinionIndefensible: how lawyers failed to stop a scandal
The day former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells gave evidence to the public inquiry was the day I knew there was a book to be written.
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OpinionAre we all doomed?
Governments are right to take a keen interest in superintelligent AI, amid pleas from the usual suspects to let capitalism rip.