Commentary and opinion – Page 175
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OpinionCourts, TV and Twitter – the perfect combination?
Electronic media will change courtroom behaviour, but not necessarily in the way most people assume.
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OpinionConsiderations on GHRs
A look at other jurisdictions tells us that we must take a granular and nuanced approach to pricing legal work.
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OpinionSome corner of a foreign field
The Ypres grave of articled clerk Cyril Montagu Pope is worth visiting.
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OpinionComparison site and a free cuddly toy
How comparison website for solicitors’ indemnity would make system more efficient.
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OpinionCocky Co-op has to lick its wounds
The company simply grew too quickly – and the clear-up job is a painful one.
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OpinionClients’ money in the news
A raft of measures to prevent money laundering highlights the difficulty lawyers face in holding confidential financial information for clients in a high-tech world.
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OpinionHonest, officer, it’s in the post
Changes to the time-honoured car tax disc rule may be of interest to lawyers.
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OpinionOur foreign policy could reach for the law
A summer of distressing international news bolsters the case for using universal jurisdiction to apprehend people accused of war crimes.
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OpinionExceptional funding – the emperor’s new clothes
With funding granted in only 4% of the 1,789 applications, and in only 12 family cases, the government cannot simply insist that the scheme is working.
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OpinionDose of realism needed on hourly rates
The arguments about hourly rates must be speedily resolved, with realism applied by both paying and receiving parties.
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OpinionWhy Inns of court may become a force to be reckoned with
Solicitors need to keep a close eye on the Inns of Court.
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OpinionBack to the future
As the geopolitical environment in which they work bears witness to a ghastly regression, our international colleagues are trying to navigate a way forward.
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OpinionSmashing the glass ceiling… in heels
A photographic project to inspire women lawyers provides lessons for addressing the gender imbalance in firms.
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OpinionWhat price a life shortened by abuse?
The ‘overarching inquiry’ into institutional child abuse will trigger memories of trauma.
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OpinionWhen planning drives local government
It would be a mistake to let planning law drive the shape of London’s local democracy.
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OpinionWho cares it’s August. Get back to work
The legal profession seems stuck in a time warp of long August breaks.
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OpinionManaging the conveyancer shortfall
One legacy of the recession is that there is a shortage of trained conveyancers now times are improving.