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Best of the blogs - 8 June 2025
2025-06-08T17:23:00+01:00
Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
Schooled by scandal
2025-06-06T10:24:00+01:00By Paul Rogerson
Shabana Mahmood demands changes to address SRA failures and prevent scandal akin to Axiom Ince from recurring. But how interventionist is the regulator now mandated to be?
Accent bias and the silent filter in law
2025-06-05T07:57:00+01:00By Winona Chan
While accent bias may often go unspoken, it is no less real. As the profession works to improve diversity, equity and inclusion, language must be part of the conversation.
Godwin’s law and the decline of the international order
2025-06-04T09:11:00+01:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
An attorney general should never fall foul of the law. But last week it appears that the current postholder did.
Firms as complaint machines: The SRA’s solution to a problem that doesn’t exist
2025-06-02T14:51:00+01:00By John Hyde
Client satisfaction with lawyers stands at 87% - so naturally the SRA wants more complaints.
Job done? Here's how to complain: SRA proposes new conduct rule
By John Hyde
The family justice system is failing to protect those most at risk
2025-06-02T10:50:00+01:00By Joanna Farrands
National Audit Office's latest report delivers a sobering assessment of a system struggling to meet the needs of vulnerable children and families.
Paralegals are now recognised as a genuine branch of the legal profession
2025-05-30T08:55:00+01:00By Amanda Hamilton
The view of what a paralegal is and what they can do has changed dramatically over the past decade.
Let slip the dogs of law
2025-05-28T10:05:00+01:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
When the international order is breaking down, why are lawyers not more vocal in protest?
Sell-by dates
2025-05-27T10:39:00+01:00By Paul Rogerson
SME law firms are losing their appetite for mergers. Buyouts? That’s a different story.
Defendant firms are to blame for soaring credit hire costs
2025-05-27T00:01:00+01:00By Anthony Hughes
Claimant firms want to find a way to keep cases out of court - but do defendants agree?
Mother in Law: Scott Simmons, rainmaker maker
2025-05-25T00:01:00+01:00By Anonymous
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
Best of the blogs - 24 May 2025
2025-05-24T08:27:00+01:00
Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
UK must not repeat Australia’s mistakes of constraining access to justice
2025-05-23T08:25:00+01:00By John Walker
Litigation funding in the UK is at a critical juncture.
Protecting juniors from exploitation
2025-05-22T10:06:00+01:00By Martin Whitehorn
Martin Whitehorn, Law Society Council member for junior solicitors, demonstrates the range of issues which people are getting help with, qualified or otherwise.
EU-UK lawyers: common values
2025-05-21T09:19:00+01:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
At a time of division and polarisation, much unites us as lawyers. The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe Plenary was an occasion to witness such unity.
Merger mania subsides
2025-05-19T15:28:00+01:00By Paul Rogerson
Appetite for mergers and acquisitions has ‘plummeted’, LexisNexis report finds.
Naming rights and wrongs: Will Hill Dickinson stick at Everton?
2025-05-19T10:54:00+01:00By John Hyde
Hill Dickinson is now moving in the same circles as Allianz and Spotify.
Hill treats blues
New Everton home to be named the Hill Dickinson Stadium
By John Hyde
A special tribunal for aggression against Ukraine
2025-05-19T09:42:00+01:00By Joshua Rozenberg
New court would try senior political and military leaders accused of planning, preparing, initiating or executing the war of aggression that Russia and its allies launched in 2022.
Starmer's bizarre misrepresentation of UK immigration will damage growth and industries
2025-05-16T10:42:00+01:00By Kerry Garcia
Debate around immigration should not be based on oversimplified, sweeping comments seeking to reduce a technical and complicated legal landscape to soundbites.
Existential dilemma
2025-05-15T13:48:00+01:00By Eduardo Reyes
In former times, traffic between top US law firms and government or public service was heavy – to the point of apparent co-dependence.
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