Comment and opinion – Page 58
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OpinionCleaning up after Raab and Braverman
What have the current justice secretary and attorney general achieved and what immediate challenges face their successors?
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OpinionAll-in. All out
Criminal barristers are fast becoming an endangered species. Either the government capitulates, or the bar appears doomed.
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OpinionMother in law: Making the most of the next chapter
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionSQE: one year on
Law Society president I. Stephanie Boyce reflects on the first 12 months since the Solicitors Qualifying Exam was introduced.
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OpinionWhen Crown court judges start to look young
The wheels of justice kept turning - just - on day one of the defence barristers’ indefinite walk-out.
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OpinionLabour must stand shoulder to shoulder with the criminal bar
The justice system has been held together by the goodwill of those working in it for far too long.
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OpinionCompetition law still isn’t up to the job
The government and the CMA always insisted competition law would protect people. It doesn’t and it never did.
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OpinionLawyers who engaged the enemy more closely
A wartime call for 'Gentlemen with yachting experience' attracted some extraordinary legal talent - and courage.
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OpinionAnti-social behaviour injunctions are a great unknown
We simply don’t know how many injunctions are applied for, how many are issued and breached, and what happens to those judged to have breached them.
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OpinionBreaking the taboo: more firms need to talk about fertility
Follow-up discussion on infertility, baby loss and alternative pathways to parenthood shows growing appetite for meaningful support.
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OpinionAn unfair tax on accessing justice
The time has come to consider reintroducing recoverability of premiums and funding costs in commercial litigation cases.
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OpinionMother in law: How the pandemic changed us
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionPro bono costs awards in tribunals need more publicity
Pro bono organisations and advisers should be aware of the expansion of the costs regime, and take advantage of it.
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OpinionLitigants want to know if they’ve won. Judgments should tell them
If litigants in person cannot understand a ruling that affects them then there is something wrong.
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OpinionLife of a CILEx advocate
Zoe Heron responds to backlash against CILEx members since the public fall out between the legal executives' representative body and their regulator.
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OpinionGarden Court’s identity crisis
Heavyweight chambers was found to have victimised and discriminated against Allison Bailey, one of its own members.
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OpinionMother in law: Roe v Wade
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.