All articles by Eduardo Reyes – Page 12
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FeatureExe marks the spot
Exeter is so much more than the south-west’s second legal centre, hears Eduardo Reyes at the Gazette’s latest roundtable. As well as offering an enviable lifestyle, the city boasts a fiercely competitive market which is a draw for junior lawyers seeking to make their mark
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Feature‘A great many she bears’
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 turns 100 on 23 December. Eduardo Reyes looks back on a century of shifting attitudes, both in the press and the Council chamber
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FeatureGlobal targets
Cast as ‘vagabonds’ in many countries, blackmailed by police and turned down for asylum, transgender people are badly let down by the law. What can be done? Eduardo Reyes reports.
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OpinionWe back only one type of social mobility
It’s called escape. But should everyone with a bit of potential have to, effectively, do a runner?
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News‘Shaking with shock’ – calls for investigation follow Gazette disclosure of secret CPS rape targets
Reactions from lawyers, political leaders and campaigners.
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FeatureThe only way is up
Some in the law are happy with the success of schemes to improve the profession’s role in social mobility. But serious problems remain, junior lawyers tell Eduardo Reyes, including the experience of ‘imposter syndrome’ after qualification.
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OpinionPicturing justice
If a cartoon character informs people their problem has a legal solution, then The Belonging Project’s initiative has been a good use of pro bono time.
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NewsCity partner publicly berates top legal directory over lack of women
Chambers & Partners tells Mayer Brown lawyer it is working towards greater inclusion.
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OpinionPeople who don’t know their knees from their thighs
When it comes to sexual harassment and assault allegations, language matters.
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ProfileMake me a match
Why send legal work to outsourcing centres in India, when top lawyers here sit idle? Dana Denis-Smith talks to Eduardo Reyes about women in the law and her thriving 1,700-lawyer legal support business
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NewsCity firms ‘bribing’ NQs to tolerate ‘broken culture’
Legal outsourcing business CEO says junior lawyers are being induced to work in a ‘dysfunctional environment’.
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OpinionWhen judges dance to a PM’s tune
We don’t need to look to the US to decide whether bringing judges ‘onside’ is a good or bad idea.
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NewsLook for signs your clients are slaves, solicitors told
Lawyers must spot where clients are slaves.
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FeatureAll things equal
Is the law just the law, or are there bold ways a court can deliver judgments in support of equality? Eduardo Reyes revisits 2010’s feminist judgments project to find out what happened next
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OpinionGovernment by judges
Parliament has put the courts in the position of ‘meddling’ in our politics.
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OpinionTime to stop looking at exam results
A Level, or even GCSE results, shouldn’t be the first filter applied to candidates wanting to enter the legal profession.
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Feature‘One of them actually delivered a speech’
The legal profession was now open to women, but accessing its toilets, canteens and clubs took longer.
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ProfileScoring centuries
Sarah Henwood talks to Eduardo Reyes about running the world’s oldest law firm.
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Feature‘Unless Britain can produce more Rose Heilbrons...
Mothers and daughters working in the law.
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OpinionTackle dysfunction in our immigration system
Assumptions about where someone was born are having a damaging effect when it comes to the right to live and work in the UK.