All Columnist articles
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OpinionI have seen the future, and we survive
There may be big potential changes ahead, but I predict they will not be fatal to the sector.
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OpinionSuccess of 'bold' reforms too early to call
The Ministry of Justice predicted that extending fixed recoverable costs would make legal costs ‘more certain and predictable’. So far, it appears the opposite has happened.
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OpinionTwo hopeful cases for the legal profession
The outcome of the cases last week, at opposite ends of our continent, bring good news.
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OpinionInjecting morality into international law
States and international courts should act for the betterment of humanity.
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OpinionMother in Law: The best things in life take time
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
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Opinion'A stone in the shoe' saves nine - online
Now that international law has been so definitively incinerated in Venezuela, our ability to resist the tech/AI flood will be almost nil.
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OpinionSomething is going to snap in 2026
Treatment of solicitors directly contradicts the government’s overall stated aim of deregulation.
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OpinionNew selling point: we are human
Solicitors have one superpower which AI cannot take away. We are a trusted human source.
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OpinionWho’s erasing whom? – a Christmas story
Here is a feel-good tale, at a time of year when feel-good tales are expected as part of the seasonal background, along with tinsel and carols.
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OpinionJury reforms ‘not just crisis management’
Courts minister Sarah Sackman MP says it is 'also about fundamental modernisation of our criminal justice system from top to bottom.'
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OpinionPutting the regulatory genie back in the bottle
I start with a small matter, which is symptomatic of a larger one.
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OpinionMother in Law: Did I miss the adulting course?
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
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OpinionKim Kardashian’s psychics and the digitalisation of justice
In due course, all justice will be digitalised and we will all be properly trained. But when, and with what resources?
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OpinionHolding the line against tyranny
The rule of law is part of our national culture – but it is a culture that is now under threat.
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OpinionAspiring Nobel Peace Prize candidate conducts lawfare
President Trump’s defamation claim against the BBC has brought out lawyers and non-lawyers in force to give advice.
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OpinionWhy Mazur is 'interfering with play'
According to Andrew Roy KC, the offside rule is how we need to think of things in the post-Mazur world.
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OpinionStopping the rule of law from becoming the rule of cliché
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.
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OpinionFighting talk over China spy case collapse
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.