Eduardo Reyes
Features editor
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OpinionAn illegal route for the Nationality and Borders Bill
The Home Office has some proposed laws on immigration and asylum – it just doesn’t have a legal system it should try to put them in.
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Her master's voice
Arriving as students in 1980s Cambridge was ‘daunting’, but now two former solicitors use skills gained in law to lead two of the university’s oldest colleges. Eduardo Reyes talks to Pippa Rogerson and Loretta Minghella
- Feature
Law at Cambridge – why bother?
Eduardo Reyes hears from the masters of two Cambridge colleges as they make their case.
- Opinion
Plugged in to the network
It was an interesting moment when Bim Afolami MP used his keynote slot at a City forum to tell attendees they were wrong on diversity.
- News
Regulators and younger investors shift City priorities
Annual culture and conduct forum hears of shift from ’greed is good’.
- Profile
Nursing ambition
Private practice solicitor of the year Anne Kavanagh talks about hospitals, career breaks and test cases.
- Feature
Looking after number one
Dedicated solicitors remain as client-focused as ever, but the life changes wrought by the pandemic have altered the face of client service for good. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion, sponsored by ActionStep.
- Feature
Ever so mighty
Ministers have become fixated on judicial power and the ability of the courts to frustrate government policy. Will they really take on the rule of law as ‘public enemy number one’? Eduardo Reyes reports.
- Feature
Duty bound
This year marks 20 years of the race equality duty, introduced in the wake of the Macpherson report’s damning indictment of ‘institutional racism’ in the police. We assess the duty’s impact and enduring legacy.
- Opinion
Can Raab be holistic?
Ministry of Justice welcomes its eighth justice secretary and lord chancellor in 10 years.
- Feature
Back to the office – but whose?
The world of work has changed for good, with serious implications for the legal jobs market.
- Profile
Climb every mountain
For Polly Sweeney, public law is a compulsion. In her spare time, hears Eduardo Reyes, she scales different heights.
- Opinion
Fleeing Afghans are up against three decades of Britain’s mean stance on asylum
Most people will be hoping the UK ambassador to Afghanistan will issue many, many visas. Last week it was controversial to make such an argument.
- News
Hourly rates rebuff for non-London commercial firms
Master of rolls to consider proposed rises in guideline rates frozen since 2010.
- Profile
Strength in numbers
Metamorph, the new owner of QualitySolicitors, claims to be revolutionising legal services. Executive chair Tony Stockdale tells Eduardo Reyes why the consolidator is prospering when so many other ‘game-changers’ have faded away.
- Opinion
A levels and training contracts – don’t ask, don’t tell
I’m waiting for A level results. 10 August. Not mine, of course, but my eldest daughter’s – but as well as wanting the best for her, it’s brought back that clear sense I had of everything in my future riding on results day.
- Opinion
Words – how a right becomes a cost
There's a klaxon going off above the language being used to describe the rights of children with special educational needs and disabilities.
- Feature
Shining stars?
The legal profession long ago embarked on a journey with online reviews – from shutting down the ‘Solicitors from Hell’ website to the prospect of compulsory online ratings.
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A year like no other
How has the economic confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic changed legal recruitment?
