All articles by Eduardo Reyes

  • Unison Supreme Court case
    News

    No new legal challenge on tribunal fees as consultation closes

    2024-03-26T10:01:00Z

    Legal advice network warns that for many low-income workers, the new ET charges will be unaffordable. 

  • Birmingham-6-released
    Feature

    Look back in anger

    15 March 2024

    It is 50 years since the pub bombings which led to the convictions of the Birmingham Six. Eduardo Reyes revisits episodes that shame the police, lawyers and judges with Chris Mullin, whose campaign exposed a notorious miscarriage of justice.

  • Eduardo Reyes
    Opinion

    Hardware failure

    2024-03-13T15:53:00Z

    While the profession’s equality ‘software’ look promising, it is not compatible with law’s ‘hardware’.

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    Feature

    Double indemnity

    8 March 2024

    Greater choice is driving a more competitive PII renewal round. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.

  • Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII)
    News

    Greater competition between insurers softens PII market

    2024-03-08T11:28:00Z

    Number of firms having to close due to difficulties in obtaining professional indemnity insurance has fallen. 

  • TonyWilliams_landscape-2024
    Profile

    Been there done that

    1 March 2024

    Tony Williams, legal business seer and twice a global managing partner, looks back on a career punctuated by seismic shifts in the profession. Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Liverpool homelessness
    Feature

    'Left in the lurch' in Liverpool

    2024-02-09T00:01:00Z

    The city’s housing and homelessness crisis is not just a consequence of austerity. Government at both local and national level is failing in its legal duties to vulnerable people, reports Eduardo Reyes.

  • Sam Townend
    Profile

    Brief encounter

    2024-01-23T15:04:00Z

    New Bar Council chair Sam Townend opens up to Eduardo Reyes about diversity and an existential crisis for criminal justice.

  • Michelle Mone
    News

    News focus: SLAPPs - lawyers are still poles apart

    2024-01-16T10:25:00Z

    Controversial lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone has triggered fresh public debate on UK libel and defamation tactics. But the prospect of further reform to combat so-called SLAPPs continues to divide the profession.

  • London City skyline
    Opinion

    Financial innovation is making a comeback – lawyers should stay well away from it

    2024-01-05T12:36:00Z

    Innovation, creativity and animal spirit should be the preserve of entrepreneurs – not bankers, and certainly not financial regulators.

  • Amy and Ed
    Opinion

    Jack, the beanstalk and the SEND Tribunal

    2023-12-19T00:01:00Z

    Tribunal figures show councils to be doubling down on the creation and enforcement of Education, Health and Care Plans.

  • Robert elliot
    News

    Tributes paid to 'exceptional' former Linklaters chief

    2023-12-12T15:30:00Z

    Robert Elliott, former senior partner and chair of the magic circle firm, has died at 71.

  • Private client roundtable
    Feature

    Life support

    2023-11-27T16:08:00Z

    As a practice area, private client is both protected from ‘AI’ and struggling with government automation of life-critical processes. Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Bucaramanga team
    Feature

    Watching brief

    2023-11-20T00:01:00Z

    In the second of two articles on lawyers supporting justice abroad, Eduardo Reyes reports on the work of the 15-year-old Colombia Caravana.

  • Eduardo Reyes coutout
    Opinion

    Unlimited shelf life

    2023-11-07T15:38:00Z

    ‘Legal London’ boasts world-class libraries. They all have gaps which should be filled.

  • Benedict Birnberg
    Profile

    Obituary: Benedict Birnberg – 1930-2023

    3 November 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. Known to all as ...

  • Benedict Birnberg
    News

    Trailblazing civil rights lawyer Ben Birnberg dies

    2023-10-26T10:44:00Z

    Firm founded by solicitor over 60 years ago was a crucible that forged radical lawyers representing the 'marginalised and unheard'.

  • Jes Staley
    Feature

    Scandal sheet

    20 October 2023

    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?

  • House price drop graphic
    Feature

    Home truths

    2023-10-10T14:40:00Z

    Average house prices are falling – just one of many developments piling pressure on residential conveyancers. Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Director of Public Prosecutions
    News

    'Mercy killing' addressed in CPS guidance

    2023-10-05T10:31:00Z

    Homicide prosecutions guidance includes criteria used to assess whether prosecuting a ‘mercy killing’ is in public interest.