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Opinion‘Safe keeping’ unsound
As a long-retired solicitor I was approached recently by an old friend and client. He wanted to know what the words ‘safe keeping’ meant. I was intrigued and he explained.
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Levy breaks
The SRA has announced that the Compensation Fund levy for firms will be increased.
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Under pressure
When I enter my offices I see doors marked ‘COLP’, ‘COFA’, ‘MLRO’ and the recently added ‘DPO’.
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Legal aid u-turn is welcome - but there is more to do
At the Children’s Society we are determined that no child will be left in legal limbo.
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Fairness and injured people
The basis for PI reform is completely without merit, yet the government has been intransigent.
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Easy does it in the modern office
The other day, as I paid a visit to the old firm, a sepulchral calm appeared to have descended on the family department.
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Revered leader
‘Slow to anger, swift to praise.’ The line from Tennyson came to mind on having learned of past-president Paul Marsh’s death.
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We’re all colleagues
When in practice, I occasionally received responses to letters from French avocats, who began their response with ‘Chere Maître’.
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Misleading advice on advance care planning risks the ‘professionalisation’ of death
In recent years much-needed attention has been drawn to the importance of people recording their wishes for future medical care in the event that they lose the ability to make decisions for themselves.
