All articles by Eduardo Reyes – Page 4
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NewsNews focus: Financial crime - good intentions, poor resources
An update for solicitors on anti-money laundering and financial crime.
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NewsLaw firms and banks ‘at risk’ of sanctions breaches
Legal practices finding it ‘really difficult’ to employ the right compliance staff, Law Society conference hears.
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OpinionLawyers 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.
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OpinionForgetting the basics
We are seeing regular and multiple micro-breakdowns in the rule of law.
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FeatureTributes to Elizabeth Cruickshank
Current and former Law Society presidents lead tributes to Elizabeth Cruickshank, whose death was announced this week.
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NewsLaw Society recognises ‘Legal Heroes’
Seven solicitors ‘who put the interests of others first’ honoured at Chancery Lane ceremony.
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OpinionTime 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.
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FeatureThis time it's personal
Government rhetoric on asylum is putting immigration lawyers in danger, as more ‘unworkable’ legislation looms.
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OpinionIn the UK approach to asylum, nothing works
I don’t mean the new phase of asylum policy has fallen short of expectations.
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NewsMoJ 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’.
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NewsObituary: Paul Watchman
Paul Watchman had a 40-year legal career that embraced a passionate commitment to pro bono work and promoted ethically responsible investment.
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NewsNews 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.
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ProfileUnder oath
Blake Morgan chair Kath Shimmin talks with Eduardo Reyes about swearing, drinking, leadership and missing the diversity bus.
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OpinionThe Jewish community's 'submerged' contribution to cricket
One barrister’s love of cricket and commitment to telling its story shows how the game might face up to and tackle its record on discrimination.
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FeatureTake on me: Client due diligence roundtable
How far does the right to representation extend? Concerns over reputation, ethics, morality and regulation are giving firms more reason than ever to turn away or shed clients.
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FeatureGeopolitical risk: The world turning
Most of the global risks businesses face are not new, but their confluence should shape corporate conduct and the legal advice that supports it.
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OpinionThe last post
There should be a race to understand, and fix, flaws in legal ethics that the Horizon IT inquiry may throw into sharp relief.