All articles by Eduardo Reyes – Page 6

  • Hybrid working
    Feature

    Locked down – but not out

    4 March 2022

    From worries about wellbeing and wifi to concern at missed learning opportunities, junior lawyers were hit hard by lockdown restrictions. But there were also clear benefits for many – can they be maintained in the move to hybrid working? Eduardo Reyes reports

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
    Opinion

    A tale of two courts – Ukraine looks to The Hague

    2022-03-03T10:39:00Z

    For those seeking accountability for war crimes, the wheels of justice are turning – albeit slowly.

  • Russia Parliament approves Putin request to use Armed Forces outside Russia
    Opinion

    Our law firms must get out of Russia

    2022-02-23T11:04:00Z

    Do solicitors, law firms, and the Russian lawyers in international firms think things will just blow over? If so, they should be reading the situation more accurately.

  • Get Brexit done sign
    News

    News focus: Brexit Freedoms Bill - freedom from what?

    2022-02-11T00:01:00Z

    Mired in politicking, the Brexit Freedoms Bill that will ‘move us away from outdated EU laws’ has still to be published. What lawyers are confronted with at present is an elaborate game of charades.

  • Judge Rose Heilbron
    Feature

    Rose Heilbron: willing role model and trailblazer

    2022-01-31T15:26:00Z

    This year marks the 50th anniversary of Heilbron's appointment as the first woman judge at the Old Bailey. 

  • european-Commission
    News

    News focus: Brexit - one year on

    2022-01-28T00:01:00Z

    Solicitors continue to face a patchwork of arrangements that fail to reflect the importance accorded to legal services in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
    Opinion

    An illegal route for the Nationality and Borders Bill

    2022-01-21T11:14:00Z

    The Home Office has some proposed laws on immigration and asylum – it just doesn’t have a legal system it should try to put them in.

  • Pippa Rogerson copy
    Feature

    Her master's voice

    2022-01-07T00:05:00Z

    Arriving as students in 1980s Cambridge was ‘daunting’, but now two former solicitors use skills gained in law to lead two of the university’s oldest colleges. Eduardo Reyes talks to Pippa Rogerson and Loretta Minghella

  • PippaRogerson_694
    Feature

    Law at Cambridge – why bother?

    2022-01-07T00:01:00Z

    Eduardo Reyes hears from the masters of two Cambridge colleges as they make their case.

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
    Opinion

    Plugged in to the network

    6 December 2021

    It was an interesting moment when Bim Afolami MP used his keynote slot at a City forum to tell attendees they were wrong on diversity. 

  • Citygloomy
    News

    Regulators and younger investors shift City priorities

    2021-11-29T16:30:00Z

    Annual culture and conduct forum hears of shift from ’greed is good’.

  • Anne-Kavanagh
    Profile

    Nursing ambition

    15 November 2021

    Private practice solicitor of the year Anne Kavanagh talks about hospitals, career breaks and test cases.

  • Geoffrey Cox
    Opinion

    Lawmakers, lawyers and second jobs

    2021-11-11T09:48:00Z

    Money turns heads, and lawyer MPs are not immune.

  • Customer service meeting
    Feature

    Looking after number one

    8 November 2021

    Dedicated solicitors remain as client-focused as ever, but the life changes wrought by the pandemic have altered the face of client service for good. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion, sponsored by ActionStep.

  • Dominic Raab arrives at the Judge's entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice
    Feature

    Ever so mighty

    1 November 2021

    Ministers have become fixated on judicial power and the ability of the courts to frustrate government policy. Will they really take on the rule of law as ‘public enemy number one’? Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Stephen-Lawrence-funeral-portrait
    Feature

    Duty bound

    11 October 2021

    This year marks 20 years of the race equality duty, introduced in the wake of the Macpherson report’s damning indictment of ‘institutional racism’ in the police. We assess the duty’s impact and enduring legacy.

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
    Opinion

    Can Raab be holistic?

    20 September 2021

    Ministry of Justice welcomes its eighth justice secretary and lord chancellor in 10 years.

  • For sale signs
    Feature

    Back to the office – but whose?

    13 September 2021

    The world of work has changed for good, with serious implications for the legal jobs market.

  • Polly Sweeney
    Profile

    Climb every mountain

    6 September 2021

    For Polly Sweeney, public law is a compulsion. In her spare time, hears Eduardo Reyes, she scales different heights.

  • Internally displaced families from northern provinces, who fled from their homes due to the fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces, take shelter in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan
    Opinion

    Fleeing Afghans are up against three decades of Britain’s mean stance on asylum

    2021-08-17T10:06:00Z

    Most people will be hoping the UK ambassador to Afghanistan will issue many, many visas. Last week it was controversial to make such an argument.