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Best of the blogs - 10 Oct 2025

2025-10-11T12:28:00+01:00

Here are our most read blogs this week in case you missed them…

  1. What the High Court’s Mazur ruling means for non-qualified staff

  2. Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys: What solicitors need to know

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  4. Conservatives court controversy with attacks on judicial independence

  5. ECHR: 'Mamma Mia, here we go again'

 

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