All Comment articles – Page 15
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OpinionWho wins from PACCAR? Cartelists and corporate wrongdoers
Government should deal head on with last year's Supreme Court ruling, Road Haulage Association chief writes.
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OpinionThe plight of women facing Taliban courts
A legal scholar in Afghanistan, whose real identity is known to the Gazette, has sent the following disturbing report.
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OpinionFrom ADHD to LLB
Navigating the legal profession with high-functioning attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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OpinionHuge fines show SRA is misusing its powers
The regulator has radically increased its powers since its creation in 2007, with no corresponding increase in accountability.
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OpinionThe trainees of tomorrow – time to change our expectations?
Expectations placed on aspiring lawyers have shifted with the times, as has the skillset. And it’s shifting again.
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OpinionLabour's great lord chancellor
Richard Burdon Haldane was in the thick of almost every major political and intellectual debate of the day.
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OpinionDouble jeopardy: SRA's £14k drink-drive fine is unfair
Such draconian sanctions may even stop others from self-reporting.
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OpinionPost Office scandal: Litigation funding is not the villain
Recoverability of costs and exemplary damages might have a role to play in promoting access to justice.
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OpinionPaul, Polmear and Purchase
Supreme Court's long-awaited landmark judgment on secondary victim claims in medical negligence has shocked the legal profession.
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OpinionPost Office scandal shows why we need to reform private prosecutions
Criminal Law Reform Now Network has been working on a review of private prosecutions since 2019.
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OpinionHorizon scandal: The SRA’s ‘wait and see’ approach is growing untenable
Regulator wants to wait a year or more to take formal action. The public - and politicians - will demand it much sooner.
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OpinionFinancial innovation is making a comeback – lawyers should stay well away from it
Innovation, creativity and animal spirit should be the preserve of entrepreneurs – not bankers, and certainly not financial regulators.
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OpinionThe legal sector can do better at conflict resolution
What shifts are we seeing in dispute resolution, and how can lawyers and the profession as a whole embrace these changes?
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OpinionMr Bates v The Post Office: A valuable take on an unbelievable scandal
Victims of the Horizon scandal deserve to have their stories told: this television drama at last does them (some) justice.
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OpinionPACCAR: government's proposed remedy is far too narrow
The role of litigation funding is now under serious threat, a former chair of the Competition Appeal Tribunal writes.
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OpinionUnregulated AI legal advice puts the public at risk
Appetite for low-cost data-driven tools is concerning in the absence of agreed standards for assessing accuracy and reliability.
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OpinionChild sexual abuse inquiry: survivors have waited long enough
Government launched the inquiry in an attempt to put things right for some of the most wronged people in our society, yet the sound of dragging heels is deafening.
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OpinionThe end of Susskind?
It’s fashionable to sneer at futurologists - but look at what the lord chief justice’s IT adviser got right.
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OpinionJack, the beanstalk and the SEND Tribunal
Tribunal figures show councils to be doubling down on the creation and enforcement of Education, Health and Care Plans.
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OpinionHow do we keep making this work?
Criminal defence solicitor Chloe Jay writes about the precarious balancing act of keeping criminal defence work afloat.