Commentary and opinion – Page 134
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OpinionBake Off: what’s to stop the BBC reinventing the show?
TV production companies try to accrue a mass of IP protections to fend off competition.
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OpinionLabour finally doing itself justice
It probably won’t win the public over, but Labour is openly wooing the legal profession.
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OpinionGrammar police heading to the bar
Will commas and full stops give the bar and clients nightmares?
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OpinionSeparation of powers, US-style
How a case involving dentists complicates the debate about splitting regulation from representation.
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OpinionLaw firms need cash to compete
External investment could transform the UK legal market within five years.
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OpinionBrexit: maintaining cross-border rights
Cross-border practising rights must be a priority in planning for Brexit.
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OpinionMilitary claims: killing the lawyers?
Politicians and the press must stop vilifying lawyers for doing their job and upholding the rule of law.
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OpinionSRA 'jumping the gun'?
New vision for regulation should worry junior lawyers, says JLD chair Leanne Maund.
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OpinionThe impact of the IBA
What good is the International Bar Association to a criminal legal aid solicitor in Rotherham?
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OpinionUber-regulator’s blurred vision
The LSB’s grand plan for overhauling regulation has been damned with faint praise.
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OpinionConstitutional monstrosity
Whatever the fate of Phil Shiner, the Legal Aid Agency has to go.
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OpinionFinally, a judgment we can all understand
I don’t want the law to be dumbed down, just made more manageable.
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OpinionBrexit: maintaining cross-border dispute regulations
Post-Brexit trade rules must not imperil more than £500bn of British business.
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OpinionPrivatising family law by the back door
Private financial dispute resolution hearings - a BUPA to the courts’ NHS - are thriving.
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OpinionTTIP, globalisation and lawyers
It is timely to contemplate what the retreat from globalisation might mean for our profession.
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OpinionFighting crime post-Brexit
Law Society chief executive Catherine Dixon explains why we must retain the European arrest warrant.
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OpinionPromoting justice in China
I was part of a delegation in Beijing that saw how legal aid is reaching clients with special needs.