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Best of the blogs - 8 August 2020

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

  1. Lockdown: navigating the moral maze

  2. Mother in law: Confidence and determination are more important than ever

  3. Long way to go before remote hearings become the norm

  4. Protected characteristics and coronavirus

  5. Are legal services still GREAT?

 

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