All articles by Christopher Digby-Bell – Page 2
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Opinion
It’s all about in-house
In a client-led legal services market, in-house lawyers are more than holding their own – it’s time we saw a bit of swagger.
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Opinion
Legal aid: let’s adapt
It is every lawyer’s dream to help shape the law, not just react to it. Let’s do that when it comes to funding reforms.
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Opinion
In defence of Fiona Woolf
The profession should have supported Lord Mayor of London before she resigned as chair of the sex abuse inquiry. Instead there was silence.
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Opinion
End of life enigma
We seem comfortable with the idea of assisted dying at the beginning of life, but struggle with it for older people.
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Opinion
In-house lawyers are valued
Only the best, most commercially minded, astute lawyers are making it in-house.
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Opinion
SEN stupidity
The problem with ‘joined up thinking’ in relation to special educational needs is that there is no easy marriage between education, health and social care.
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Opinion
Wonga double standards
The Wonga letters claiming to be from law firms were wrong; they would still be wrong if written by qualified solicitors.
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Opinion
Full disclosure from ABSs
The old taboos of partnership secrecy still apply in the brave new world.
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News
Bank of England job - lawyers need not apply
In the next few months, David Cameron and George Osborne will be looking to recruit a new governor of the Bank of England to succeed Sir Mervyn King when he steps down in June 2013. I trust that no banking lawyer is tempted to apply ...
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A bit of give and take
Fiona Woolf overlooks the contribution of clients with regard to her hopes that more women will reach the top in law firms. I agree that many law firms find it difficult to accommodate flexible working, but it is clients too who need to change their attitude to women lawyers.
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Confrontation not consultation
In her latest column, the Law Society president urges us all to stand up and fight for access to justice against the threatened legal aid cuts. She writes: ‘This really is a process of genuine consultation; it is not a done deal and we still have all to play for’. ...
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Commercial reality
Richard Tinn appears to be accusing me of departing from the traditional values of our profession in suggesting that clients want fixed fees instead of time-based charging (see [2010] Gazette, 18 February, 11).
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News
In a fix on fees
To justify lawyers’ time-based charging, Peter Rogers and Lloyd Junor seek to take comfort from the idea that heart surgeons charge more if they hit complications mid-operation (see [2010] Gazette, 4 December, 13). As I understand it, surgeons quote a fixed fee and stick to it, complications or not.
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News
Payment by results
Both Natalie Saunders and Neil Wright make the point that it is the client and not the solicitor who should pay for the time wasted by inexpert or incompetent solicitors acting on the other side of a transaction or dispute (letters, 14 January).
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Hour of reckoning
Dick Jennings’ comments (see [2009] Gazette, 10 December, 11) supporting hourly fee charging miss two fundamental truths.
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