All articles by Eduardo Reyes – Page 5
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Opinion
A morally flawed act
Case for the Nationality and Borders Act to be revised is a technical as well as a moral one.
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Opinion
On social mobility, aim for the ceiling
Government’s social mobility tsar says working class people should take ‘smaller steps’ rather than aiming for elite universities. This puts a ceiling on ambition.
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Opinion
Skilling me softly
Technology’s impact on law in the last two decades is endlessly discussed. However there has been a quieter but no less important transformation in the human attributes needed to succeed. Eduardo Reyes reports.
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Feature
Age-old problems
The ethics surrounding capacity, autonomy, legacy, values and digital assets were front of mind at the annual conference of the Law Society’s Private Client Section.
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Opinion
Damning verdict on Raab’s Bill of Rights
It is, in one striking phrase, ‘a powerpoint of key messages…mashed together in a piece of legislation’.
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News
Debating equality: student Pride moot
In the 1920s, the Gazette and Solicitors Journal routinely reported the results of law’s debating societies and student mooting competitions – a tradition that sadly ceased at some point.
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Feature
Fight club
From coping with the explosion of data to the challenge of keeping disputes in the UK post-Brexit, commercial litigators have a full in-tray. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.
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Feature
Emergency room
Medical negligence cases benefited from pragmatic collaboration by all involved during the pandemic. Politicians intent on reforming the handling of disputes which arise from clinical failings should take note. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable
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Opinion
Bringing a clin neg claim – it could easily have been me
Arguments that frame cases as a ‘drain on the NHS’ are promoted by people who have not experienced the fallout of clinical negligence.
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Feature
If you were there
As the cost-of-living crisis worsens, can lawyers and the legal system do anything to ensure a just outcome for society’s most disadvantaged people? Many are helped, Eduardo Reyes finds, yet the scale of the problem is daunting.
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Opinion
Why did no-fault divorce take so long? Blame my parents
I benefitted from my parents’ mature approach to divorce. I would like it to be a more common experience.
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Opinion
The SEND Green Paper: more obstacles to access to justice
The paper contributes to a culture where families involved in the process need not be listened to.
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Profile
A life on the edge
Media favourite Mark Stephens reviews a career that has encompassed hit men, Tom Jones and groundbreaking human rights cases. Eduardo Reyes reports.
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News
UN’s top court tells Russia to cease Ukraine conflict
Justices vote to order Russia to suspend military operations immediately.
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Opinion
Local government report says SEND Tribunal losses are 'anyone’s fault but ours'
Report blames increase in SEND Tribunal cases on ‘unbalanced’ statutory framework. It also blames ‘affluent’ families who use lawyers at the tribunal and before.
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News
‘Affluent families’ to blame for rise in special needs hearings
Local government-commissioned research highlights ’potential lack of equity of access to dispute resolution’.
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Profile
'I shouldn't be here'
Kingsley Napley’s Sandra Paul, a former social worker, talks to Eduardo Reyes about law as a second career and how she has seen the profession ‘change beyond recognition’.
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Feature
Covering the bases
In year two of a teak-hard market for professional indemnity insurance, premiums continue to rise amid concerns about capacity. But are we over the worst? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.
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Opinion
Putin should be scared of The Hague
An indictment from The Hague is the ‘black spot’ we slip to dictators and their henchmen.