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Aspiring Nobel Peace Prize candidate conducts lawfare
2025-11-18T10:41:00+00:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
President Trump’s defamation claim against the BBC has brought out lawyers and non-lawyers in force to give advice.
Seeing double
2025-11-17T14:54:00+00:00By Paul Rogerson
After an announcement that AML supervision of solicitors is to be streamlined, fears have been voiced that the compliance burden will become heavier.
Why Mazur is 'interfering with play'
2025-11-17T10:57:00+00:00By Rachel Rothwell
According to Andrew Roy KC, the offside rule is how we need to think of things in the post-Mazur world.
Best of the blogs - 15 Nov 2025
2025-11-15T09:19:00+00:00
Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
Mother in Law: Autism in girls
2025-11-14T08:00:00+00:00By Anonymous
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
Trump lawyer’s letter to the BBC – comfortingly familiar to media editors everywhere
2025-11-12T16:04:00+00:00By Eduardo Reyes
Such letters always have so many points in common.
Stopping the rule of law from becoming the rule of cliché
2025-11-12T11:46:00+00:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
Nothing original is ever said on the topic of rule of law at international legal meetings. We can’t even agree what the phrase actually means.
Fighting talk over China spy case collapse
2025-11-11T00:01:00+00:00By Joshua Rozenberg
Asked to explain why prosecutors had dropped a high-profile case against two men accused of spying for China, the attorney general came out fighting.
Could we learn from Toronto’s £500m courthouse?
2025-11-10T16:29:00+00:00By John Hyde
A Canadian provincial capital has built a £500m courthouse which England and Wales can only dream of.
Justice for All? The economic impact of Magna Carta
2025-11-10T15:02:00+00:00By Robert Hughes-Penney
The 800-year-old charter's principles remain not only morally resonant but economically indispensable.
LLP tax changes will hit the stability of the partnership structure
2025-11-10T11:19:00+00:00By Anthony Julius
Current system is indefensible - but change will have implications for succession planning.
Best of the blogs - 8 Nov 2025
2025-11-08T20:05:00+00:00
Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
AI prose doesn’t glitter
2025-11-07T10:04:00+00:00By Eduardo Reyes
At the Gazette, we have had cause to debate our approach to how we treat submitted articles written with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
Taking the heat off junior lawyers
2025-11-06T11:07:00+00:00By Domenica Giorgianni
While long hours and high expectations may be part of the job, the profession needs to evolve. Wellbeing is just as important as legal skill.
Why we need a child cruelty register
2025-11-05T10:45:00+00:00By Helen Grant OBE MP
Register would require individuals convicted of specified offences to supply details to the police.
Sparring partners
2025-11-04T14:38:00+00:00By Paul Rogerson
The chancellor is reportedly poised to raid LLP partners for tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds by removing their tax breaks. Lawyers are in her crosshairs too.
We do not need to reinvent the wheel to fix the courts crisis
2025-11-04T10:03:00+00:00By Catherine Baksi
'Courtwatchers' who took part in a Transform Justice project made 18 breathtakingly simple recommendations.
ECHR: Seventy-five and still indispensable
2025-11-04T09:44:00+00:00By Helena Kennedy KC
Why the European Convention on Human Rights matters as much as ever.
SRA failures – planning for the aftermath
2025-11-03T10:13:00+00:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
‘Just sort it out!’ is a reasonable request for the profession to make of the Law Society. But there is a chasm between what many would like the Society to do, and what it can actually do.
Mother in Law: Mazur – on whose authority?
31 October 2025By Anonymous
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
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