All Comment articles – Page 8
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Our family justice system is still failing women
There remains a lack of understanding about post-separation abuse against women.
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Articled clerks who bust the dams
Two of the key figures on the RAF’s most celebrated wartime mission were trainee solicitors. Both paid the highest price.
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Mental Health Awareness Week: Profession needs a culture change
The legal sector now offers greater flexibility and new ways of working. But there has also been a blurring of boundaries between life and work, and increased anxiety.
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Time-bar: getting away with fraud
Is it time to extend the limitation period for fraud civil claims?
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Clear evidence that the SFO is making progress
With more direct challenges to case work decisions, outcomes will improve and the risk of future case failures will reduce.
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Stop the 'Squid Game' of solicitor training
We need greater diversity in training opportunities - it’s time for smaller law firms, not-for-profits and in-house teams to get on board.
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Impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the access to justice sector
Without a properly funded justice system, more people will decline further into poverty and their health and wellbeing will suffer.
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Raab is no martyr of the snowflake era, he’s a lesson to us all
Workplace culture is a huge issue in the legal profession. The Tolley report should be required reading.
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'Activist lawyers' and the duty of independence
Representation, like justice, should be blind.
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What is 'world leading' about rolling back data protections?
Proposed data bill seeks to water down the insufficient protections we currently have.
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Even after Putin's warning, would Armenia gain by joining the ICC?
Russia’s threat of retaliation should Armenia join the international court puts Armenia in a bind. But membership may even lead to unexpected legal jeopardy for the Caucasian nation.
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'Failure to prevent' is a fraud game-changer
Scenarios in which the proposed new offence might be used are many and various.
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Positive obligations and the ECHR
Government plans to weaken positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights threaten an effective tool for bringing perpetrators of sex-based violence to justice.
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Does your firm turn a blind eye to big billers behaving badly?
Partnerships might be able to ignore sexual misconduct or bullying, but the SRA will not.
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Anomie of the people
‘Anomie’ – ‘a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of common purpose’ – appears in danger of taking hold of the legal profession.
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End stop-go-stop on magistrates' sentencing
The Magistrates’ Association urges the government to restore magistrates’ extended sentencing range as soon as possible.
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Making up party policy on civil justice
The Gazette's features editor recalls creating civil justice policy for an opposition party from scratch.
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A decade of cuts to legal aid – a valiant sector struggling for survival
The Law Society calls on the government to invest in legal aid services now, to ensure support is there for those who need it in these turbulent times.
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Can we regulate what we cannot define?
The government is right to hold off from immediate legislation to govern 'artificial intelligence'.