Opinion
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OpinionAssisted dying – across the divide
Melinda Giles reviews 'Do We Have the Right to Die? (Think Again) One big question. Two alternative answers'.
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OpinionFascinating and chilling account of counterculture
David Pickup reviews 'Outlawed: Responding to the Global rise of Sovereign Citizens and Legal Conspiracies'.
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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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OpinionTwilight of the gods
Jo O’Sullivan and Sean Gordon review 'Frail Professionalism? Lawyers’ Ethics after the Post Office and Other Cases'.
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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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OpinionA compelling account of a catastrophe
Sean Gordon and Jo O’Sullivan review 'Indefensible: How Lawyers Failed to Stop the Post Office Scandal' by John Hyde.
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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.
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OpinionThe government must confront the IPP problem
Few sentencing regimes have attracted as much criticism as imprisonment for public protection.
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OpinionLawyers must join the calls for international regulation of AI
The future racing towards us – unregulated superintelligent AI - is one without law, without the rule of law, without access to justice and without liability.
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OpinionMother in Law: holiday snaps
Our week away was lovely. My thoughts entirely shifted and slowed.
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OpinionDisclosure: a cure worse than the disease?
The rules surrounding civil procedure are constantly being chopped and changed, and it is not uncommon for reforms to be deeply unpopular (costs budgeting, anyone?).
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OpinionListen to the Financial Conduct Authority on litigation funding
Financial Services and Markets Bill offers a chance to regulate the industry.
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OpinionBlaming judicial review - here we go again
The attorney general and the chancellor have pre-emptively teamed up to blame judicial review for government’s delivery failures.
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OpinionYou can’t cut firms’ income stream and expect favours in return
No-one can be totally upfront about this client account interest row. But we can be clear about the consequences.
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OpinionGround in a slow mill: farewell to Chancery?
The new Business and Property Division will remove the last vestige of Dickens' Bleak House court. In theory.