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Peter Ryder
- Opinion
Time for a ‘sub-profession’ in the law?
The article about interventions in last week’s Gazette, which included a description of the consequences and cost of the collapse of Blakemores, should have us all worried for the future of our profession. It is clear now that our leaders were mistaken when they allowed first advertising and later referral ...
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Client confusion
The occasional articles by the Legal Ombudsman should give us all cause for concern. Historically we have, in these articles, had our clients described as ‘customers’ or ‘consumers’. Even the lay members of the ombudsman service ought to know that it is shopkeepers who have customers and regional or national ...
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Sharia dilemma
Howard Shelley’s letter about the potential usefulness of sharia law raises the thorny question of how sharia is to be ‘given a try’. At present sharia courts hear cases and give judgments on a voluntary basis. The only further step I could envisage being taken would be to make those ...
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Debt blocks access
The final report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions should have been seen as the propaganda it is.