Comment and opinion – Page 166
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OpinionJanner: a misguided inquiry
Dame Lowell Goddard is naive to think she can establish the truth of 40-year-old child abuse allegations. And it isn’t her job.
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OpinionMystery shopping and legal regulators
Investment in mystery shopping pays dividends in terms of happier clients, but would regulators’ time be better spent on other areas?
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OpinionWill lawyers really have a role in the online court?
It’s nice of Briggs LJ to include lawyers, but it feels like a token gesture.
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OpinionEU referendum: why we should remain
Remain is the outcome that will best ensure the prosperity of our families, our country and our legal profession.
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Opinion‘Prison shopping’ in the EU
Forum shopping should ultimately lead to prison standards improving across the Union.
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OpinionExtremism: criminalising sceptics
Government measures to outlaw non-violent extremism are both unworkable and undesirable.
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OpinionLand Registry: a sell-off too far?
Privatisation of Land Registry threatens to undermine a vital piece of our national infrastructure.
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OpinionCosts: a harsh lesson on proportionality
The slashing of a successful claimant’s costs casts some light on the new rule.
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OpinionData protection – uncertainty grows
Further developments suggest lawyers will have to get used to uncertainty surrounding the law on EU-US data transfers.
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OpinionScrutiny of judicial conduct
Mr Justice Peter Smith’s behaviour is once again being reviewed.
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OpinionJunior lawyers: the £85,000 question
Hiring expensive people is a ticket to compete for work, not a guarantee of securing it.
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OpinionOmbudsman schemes: propping up justice
This type of alternative dispute resolution can become an integral part of the civil justice system.
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OpinionThe Legal Services Consumer Panel: what now?
Watchdog is a lobbying group for one interest in a diminishing part of the legal ecosystem.
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OpinionDebates on diversity are a stuck record
It’s time to try something new in debates on the legal profession’s diversity.
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OpinionWellbeing awareness beyond a week
Solicitors must keep wellbeing conversations going to make a real difference on mental health.
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OpinionChanging IP law: nearly there
Reforms promised in the new unjustified threats bill are evidence that patient committee work can pay off.
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OpinionLand Registry: Why, Minister?
Think the government is clueless about privatising Land Registry? A classic sitcom was there first.
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OpinionHow fixed costs are looking
The more things develop, the more one gets the sense that the reality is going to be less radical than first feared.