All articles by Eduardo Reyes – Page 8
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NewsNews focus: Brexit Freedoms Bill - freedom from what?
Mired in politicking, the Brexit Freedoms Bill that will ‘move us away from outdated EU laws’ has still to be published.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.
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FeatureRose Heilbron: willing role model and trailblazer
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Heilbron's appointment as the first woman judge at the Old Bailey.
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NewsNews focus: Brexit - one year on
Solicitors continue to face a patchwork of arrangements that fail to reflect the importance accorded to legal services in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
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OpinionAn illegal route for the Nationality and Borders Bill
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.
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FeatureHer master's voice
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
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FeatureLaw at Cambridge – why bother?
Eduardo Reyes hears from the masters of two Cambridge colleges as they make their case.
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OpinionPlugged in to the network
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.
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NewsRegulators and younger investors shift City priorities
Annual culture and conduct forum hears of shift from ’greed is good’.
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ProfileNursing ambition
Private practice solicitor of the year Anne Kavanagh talks about hospitals, career breaks and test cases.
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FeatureLooking after number one
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.
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FeatureEver so mighty
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.
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FeatureDuty bound
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.
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OpinionCan Raab be holistic?
Ministry of Justice welcomes its eighth justice secretary and lord chancellor in 10 years.
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FeatureBack to the office – but whose?
The world of work has changed for good, with serious implications for the legal jobs market.
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ProfileClimb every mountain
For Polly Sweeney, public law is a compulsion. In her spare time, hears Eduardo Reyes, she scales different heights.
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OpinionFleeing Afghans are up against three decades of Britain’s mean stance on asylum
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.
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NewsHourly rates rebuff for non-London commercial firms
Master of rolls to consider proposed rises in guideline rates frozen since 2010.
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ProfileStrength in numbers
Metamorph, the new owner of QualitySolicitors, claims to be revolutionising legal services. Executive chair Tony Stockdale tells Eduardo Reyes why the consolidator is prospering when so many other ‘game-changers’ have faded away.
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OpinionA levels and training contracts – don’t ask, don’t tell
I’m waiting for A level results. 10 August. Not mine, of course, but my eldest daughter’s – but as well as wanting the best for her, it’s brought back that clear sense I had of everything in my future riding on results day.