Commentary and opinion – Page 19
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Law Society agenda encompasses LPA and Mental Health Act reform
Reform is central to supporting people detained under mental health legislation to access justice, and can reduce risk of vulnerable people being exploited during Lasting Powers of Attorney process.
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International Women's Day: Profession looks to do more and do it better
Law Society president Lubna Shuja encourages all firms, whatever their size, to sign up to the Women in Law Pledge.
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Firms should treat every day as International Women's Day
Women's achievements should be celebrated all year round, not just one day a year.
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Can a solicitor be a hero?
It is time to highlight the immense work that solicitors do to help both individuals and society as a whole.
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Can lawyers be utopians?
Sometimes we should spend time considering the eternal and beautiful, and how we should aim to construct a new version of it.
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New bill may create hostile environment for media
Is public interest journalism about to be outlawed on national security grounds?
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Hillsborough families let down by the state - again
Victims want legal representation and a duty of candour, not this diluted offer.
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Mother in Law: Stuck in bad habits? Seek out small wins
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Footing the bill for our own values
We need to wean ourselves off the notion that the government is going to continue to pay for everything forever.
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HMCTS was forewarned about the risk of digital courts
Rather than dismissing critics as Luddites the MoJ should have listened to court users.
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Risks and regulatory changes to look out for
Sanctions, AML compliance, SRA fining powers and a new enforcement strategy - the complexity of law firm risk mitigation and compliance is ever increasing.
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Common platform fails to deliver
It is not a case of users adapting, but providers reviewing a dysfunctional system that may have been launched too soon.
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Why we need a data lab for justice
We have systematically failed to collect data to help us understand who is in the justice system, or what happens to them.
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The climate crisis and the courts
Just as Gandhi was a highly controversial figure in his lifetime, so were the defendants in Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court last week.
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Calling Putin to account for crime of aggression
A plan to create a new tribunal that would try Russian leaders on allegations of aggression gains traction within the international community.
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Consent – a missed opportunity for an important discussion
Channel 4 drama promised to be a show that would draw attention to the complexity of sexual allegations involving school aged children, but Consent falls short.
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Mentors and mentees wanted: Judicial Reverse Mentoring Scheme
Scheme matches legal professionals from under-represented groups to mentor a judge (who will be their mentee).
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Britcoin is not as bonkers as it sounds
Access to public - central bank - money is essential for stability in the post-cash economy.
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Welcome to the Ministry of High Standards and Professionalism
We must not take what happens – or indeed dies in silence - in our Ministry of Justice as indicative of what happens in the wider world, and certainly not as being normal.