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NewsSolicitor Rosie closes her Love Island argument on Adam
The good news is she’s still in it. The bad news is she’s suffered heartbreak.
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NewsNothing Gauke-ward about a legal match
Lord chancellor leads a select XI against his neighbouring MP - who has a solicitor in the line-up.
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NewsMinister quits out of the Blue
Obiter feels for soft-Tory thinktank Bright Blue. It teamed up last week with the Equality and Human Rights Commission to present an agenda-setting conference ‘Fighting for Freedom: Conservatism, human rights and discrimination’.
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NewsAnd so it begins…
The World Cup is upon us, meaning a month of early finishes and web browsers quickly minimised whenever the boss walks past. Luckily, England games fall in the evening or at the weekend, so absenteeism should not be the problem it was in previous tournaments. But with 5,500 foreign lawyers ...
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NewsLegal life on the ocean wave
Solicitors pitted their sailing skills against architects, barristers and MPs in the annual outing of the Law Society Yacht Club. The regatta featured races between classic 26-foot Mermaid-class keelboats operated by the Sea View Yacht Club on the Isle of Wight.
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NewsHale, the primary school hero
An access to justice charity wants to publish an illustrated children's book about the Supreme Court president.
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NewsSolicitors and salutations
The letter in the Gazette fulminating about the archaic practice of beginning letters ‘Dear Sir’ is absolutely right (21 May). As we approach the end of the second decade of the 21st century it is catering to a patriarchal society: it is a practice that is outmoded and should be ...
