Comment and opinion – Page 51
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OpinionJeremy Hunt’s handy sword of Damocles
Proposals by chair of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee represent an overhaul of the way compensation is awarded when injury is caused by the NHS.
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OpinionTime for UK courts to get more screen time?
Johnny Depp's defamation claim against Amber Heard is being televised in America, enabling millions of people around the world to tune in.
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OpinionUkraine invasion: the legal basis for reparations
Despite Russia's UNSC veto, a path does theoretically exist that could be utilised in the years and decades to come.
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OpinionRemember, judges are human too
The Court of Appeal's Lady Justice Carr gave a surprising glimpse of what life looks like behind the bench.
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OpinionThe Rwandan lawyer trap has snapped shut
Attacks by a prime minister on lawyers exercising their professional duties can have a chilling effect on the right of access to justice.
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OpinionSLAPPs risk tarnishing the reputation of our justice system
Strategic lawsuits against public participation threaten free speech and democratic debate - we must fight back against these abuses.
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OpinionMother in law: The writing process continues
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionCriminal justice? You’re not serious, minister
As criminal justice totters, juniors are bearing the brunt.
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OpinionPaying for the privilege
International firm Stephenson Harwood made an unprecedented splash by laying down the law on home working.
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OpinionFlexible working: why it’s time we put our colleagues first
Lizzy Firmin discusses the reasons why East Anglia law firm Ellisons Solicitors has embraced the move to flexible working.
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OpinionAcid, amnesty - and abortion: 1972 and all that
Fifty years ago, judicial activism was playing its part in a culture war.
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OpinionOpen thread: Would you take a pay cut to work from home?
Tell us your views on the latest response to working patterns post-Covid.
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OpinionTime for a new charter on ethics
New guide to modern problems facing the profession is a positive contribution to a story in which we have so far been outmanoeuvred.
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OpinionSounding off
Judicial diversity (or the lack of it) remains a seemingly intractable bone of contention among lawyers.
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OpinionLow-income homeowners are still struggling to access legal aid
Legal Aid Agency must remove remaining barriers in trapped capital cases.
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OpinionAn exhausting treadmill for solicitors
The government has simply not grasped the urgency of the criminal legal aid crisis.