All articles by Eduardo Reyes

  • Eduardo Reyes
    Opinion

    This could be the European Century

    2025-04-14T13:31:00Z

    Europe can seem to move slowly, but it is showing it can adapt in finance and defence. Our social welfare safety nets are under stress, but they exist.

  • Assisted dying feature
    Feature

    'Safety' v autonomy

    11 April 2025

    The Commons committee stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has concluded. Now extensively amended, is the legislation fit for purpose? Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • President Donald Trump
    Opinion

    How ‘Big Law’ might respond to Trump attacks

    2025-03-27T12:56:00Z

    There is shock at all levels of firms in this global elite bracket: shock that such significant businesses can face ‘existential threat’ based on executive whimsy, and shock that the rule of law can be put in such jeopardy in a large, mature democracy.

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
    Opinion

    The evil umpire

    2025-03-20T16:03:00Z

    Fair, independent umpires with experience and good judgement are an advantage in a competitive business as they are in sport.

  • Louise Lewis High res Freeths
    News

    Lawyers welcome removal of judges from assisted dying role

    2025-03-13T10:50:00Z

    Judge-appointed panel of three people would approve end-of-life requests.

  • Linda Lee and Donna Goodsell
    Feature

    PII roundtable: Soft sell

    2025-02-25T14:49:00Z

    With the PII market still benign, solicitors can focus their energy on how best to present themselves to insurers as a good risk. Eduardo Reyes and Rachel Rothwell report from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.

  • Alison Eddy
    Profile

    Spot the difference

    2025-02-19T10:26:00Z

    Alison Eddy headed Irwin Mitchell’s London office for 12 years. She talks to Eduardo Reyes about a career that has never lost its focus on equality and diversity.

  • Client account
    News

    In depth: Should solicitors hold client money?

    2025-02-11T15:33:00Z

    Would it be simpler and safer if law firms didn’t hold client money? That is one proposal in a landmark SRA consultation on client protection which closes later this month. Solicitors are sceptical.

  • Eduardo Reyes
    Opinion

    Sitting out a corporate 'war on woke'

    2025-01-17T08:56:00Z

    Mark Zuckerberg wants 'masculine energy' to replace 'feminine energy' in the work place. For reasons of sound business, and common sense, law firm leaders won't agree.

  • Lasting power of attorney
    News

    LPA firm investigated by BBC silent on legal action threat

    2025-01-14T09:32:00Z

    Firm said last month it was considering suing the broadcaster, while denying allegations of misconduct.

  • Seb LPA
    News

    Law firm at centre of LPA allegations ‘may sue BBC’

    2024-12-10T12:26:00Z

    Craybeck Law hits out at ’misleading and inaccurate’ BBC investigation into its use of lasting powers of attorney. 

  • Jonathan Sewell and Sue Mawdsley
    Feature

    Client risks: Danger nous

    29 November 2024

    How should firms manage risk, compliance and client care in the context of rising demands relating to due diligence? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.

  • A group of doctors walk down a hospital corridor
    Opinion

    Medical perspectives on the ‘End of Life’ bill

    2024-11-26T10:30:00Z

    I contacted doctors I know and respect, but whose views on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill I did not know. Two replied at length.

  • Reena Parmar
    Feature

    ‘There are so few openly disabled role models’

    22 November 2024

    Disability History Month.

  • Kim Leadbeater MP with campaigners in favour of legalising assisted dying
    Feature

    A safe way to die?

    2024-11-18T14:33:00Z

    A private member’s bill introduced by Kim Leadbeater MP represents the strongest chance yet that assisted dying could be made legal in England and Wales. Do its safeguards answer the critics? Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Eduardo Reyes
    Opinion

    Assisted dying bill: there is much in the debate that frustrates

    2024-11-15T12:07:00Z

    Bill introduced by Kim Leadbeater MP stands the strongest chance yet of effecting a change in the law.

  • Kim Leadbeater MP
    News

    'Capacity' concerns over assisted dying bill

    2024-11-15T10:13:00Z

    Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, introduced by backbencher Kim Leadbeater MP, has been promised parliamentary time by the government.

  • Mid-sized law firm roundtable
    Feature

    Stuck in the middle?

    2024-10-21T15:14:00Z

    Mid-sized law firms are very far from being also-rans. Eduardo Reyes finds that they are dynamic actors, finding ways to innovate and endure by utilising service, structure, technology – and even a sense of mission.

  • James Vernor-Miles, Victoria Hodges and Andrew Weir
    Feature

    Roundtable: Sale agreed?

    2024-10-16T10:21:00Z

    Modern conveyancing has ‘specialisms within itself’, reflecting the complexity of a process that is too often assumed to be simple or capable of being ‘standardised’. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.

  • Robert Spence Watson
    Feature

    Marking time

    2024-10-07T10:07:00Z

    In its 200th year, the Law Society has been collecting accounts of solicitor contributions to the public good across England and Wales.