
Eduardo Reyes
Features editor
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- Tel:
- 020 8049 3813
- Email:
- eduardo.reyes@lawsociety.org.uk
- Feature
Life support
As a practice area, private client is both protected from ‘AI’ and struggling with government automation of life-critical processes. Eduardo Reyes reports.
- Feature
Watching brief
In the second of two articles on lawyers supporting justice abroad, Eduardo Reyes reports on the work of the 15-year-old Colombia Caravana.
- Opinion
Unlimited shelf life
‘Legal London’ boasts world-class libraries. They all have gaps which should be filled.
- Profile
Obituary: Benedict Birnberg – 1930-2023
Solicitor Benedict Birnberg, who has died aged 93, is remembered as ‘one of the greatest lawyers of his generation’ and founder of a law firm that continues his work at the cutting edge of civil liberties and social justice cases, writes Eduardo Reyes.
- News
Trailblazing civil rights lawyer Ben Birnberg dies
Firm founded by solicitor over 60 years ago was a crucible that forged radical lawyers representing the 'marginalised and unheard'.
- Feature
Scandal sheet
Our biggest banks have been battered by mis-selling claims and governance failures for over a decade. As PPI and interest rates swaps payouts tail off, Eduardo Reyes asks, are they finally managing to reduce their exposure?
- Feature
Home truths
Average house prices are falling – just one of many developments piling pressure on residential conveyancers. Eduardo Reyes reports.
- News
'Mercy killing' addressed in CPS guidance
Homicide prosecutions guidance includes criteria used to assess whether prosecuting a ‘mercy killing’ is in public interest.
- News
News focus: Financial crime - good intentions, poor resources
An update for solicitors on anti-money laundering and financial crime.
- News
Law firms and banks ‘at risk’ of sanctions breaches
Legal practices finding it ‘really difficult’ to employ the right compliance staff, Law Society conference hears.
- Opinion
Lawyers are exasperated by net zero U-turns
Environmental law experts give their verdict as Sunak junks key parts of the government’s existing climate change policies.
- Feature
Tributes to Elizabeth Cruickshank
Current and former Law Society presidents lead tributes to Elizabeth Cruickshank, whose death was announced this week.
- News
Law Society recognises ‘Legal Heroes’
Seven solicitors ‘who put the interests of others first’ honoured at Chancery Lane ceremony.
- Opinion
Time to overhaul legal regulation - again?
Piecemeal changes and mission creep are undermining the 2007 ‘Clementi’ settlement to the point where a wider review is becoming necessary.
- Feature
This time it's personal
Government rhetoric on asylum is putting immigration lawyers in danger, as more ‘unworkable’ legislation looms.
- Opinion
In the UK approach to asylum, nothing works
I don’t mean the new phase of asylum policy has fallen short of expectations.
- News
MoJ faces threat from bar over fixed recoverable costs plan
Bar Council vice chair says reform brings into ‘sharp relief the need for the government finally to address problems posed by existing regime’.
- News
Obituary: Paul Watchman
Paul Watchman had a 40-year legal career that embraced a passionate commitment to pro bono work and promoted ethically responsible investment.
- News
News focus: BBC presenter saga – a crisis that got out of control
Libel, privacy, criminal and employment law issues jostled for prominence in the scandal that arose over the alleged behaviour of a BBC presenter. Lawyers assess the likely fallout from a crisis that spiralled out of control.