Commentary and opinion – Page 169
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OpinionCharge of the land brigade
Land Registry has bent slightly to critics, but questions remain over its future.
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OpinionWhy lawyers and mediators must pull together
To expand the market for family law, lawyers and mediators must learn to work in tandem and make their services affordable for average-income private clients.
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OpinionHow to market and work part-time
Simply being smarter with your time means that a career break or reduced hours do not need to limit your marketing and business development activities.
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OpinionCharities and tax exemptions
A landmark test case will modernise the legal definition of ‘a charity’.
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OpinionLawyers and trade secrets
There may be serious knock-on effects on lawyers under EU plans to harmonise trade secrets legislation across the Union.
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OpinionPoor Goliath can’t even raise a smile
Corporations are guilty of disingenuous nonsense when they scaremonger about claims.
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OpinionGet up, stand up for IP rights
How does a judgment in a Bob Marley copyright case affect the interpretation of contracts?
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OpinionGrayling should embrace the fourth revolution
The lord chancellor’s Public Defender Service strategy illustrates the tendency of the state to grow, no matter what.
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OpinionPortal problems
Defendants complain of behaviour deliberately designed to avoid EL/PL portal.
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OpinionDefence costs: an elegant solution
Why not use City fines to pay the defence in serious fraud cases?
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OpinionMixed picture on whiplash
The success of the Jackson reforms in cutting motor claims is far from clear-cut.
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OpinionResponding to the ‘right to be forgotten’
Huge issues face the EU - not least the ‘right to be forgotten’ problem - and lawyers must meet them with decisiveness.
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OpinionGoogle and the content conundrum
Becoming more visible online is difficult for solicitors – but outsourcing is not the only way to achieve increased hits.
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OpinionIt’s impossible to solve the Mitchell riddle
Jackson wanted consistency; lawyers want common sense. The two are incompatible.
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OpinionNot one of the ‘pusillanimous’
Nigerian human rights lawyer Rommy Mom asked awkward questions and paid the price.
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OpinionEuro elections and lawyers
Despite some huge national upsets in the European elections, the issues affecting lawyers remain the same.
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OpinionCotton and compromise
The criminal justice system requires a sensible resolution of the VHCC fee cut impasse.
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OpinionRise of specialist law firms
Niche firms will materialise to occupy emergent ‘advice deserts’.