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Iraq: fragile justice
Nearly 10 years after regime change, seven years since the first democratic elections and despite several billion dollars worth of targeted aid, the rule of law in Iraq ranges from fragile to non-existent. In one of the first tests of Europe’s Common Security and Defence Policy, a small and little-known ...
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My legal life: Roger Terrell
My father was a farmer but I didn’t fancy a career in agriculture. The beauty of a law degree is that it then takes you on a well-defined path. My training contract was with the legal department at Nottinghamshire County Council. I was articled to John Hayes, who had a ...
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My legal life: Julia Chain
I married an academic, so one of us had to be able to support the family – law seemed like a good profession. Legal education back then taught us nothing about dealing with clients – it was six months of learning by rote. What was excellent was the training. I ...
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My legal life: Sophie Khan
Before I settled on law I wanted to be a conservationist. I had read Peter Matthiessen’s book The Snow Leopard, in which he diarised his journey through the Himalayas, and wanted to follow in his footsteps. I’ve always been a worker and couldn’t wait to qualify. I can remember in ...
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Tarzan and the briefs
In his heyday, Michael ‘Tarzan’ Heseltine MP was renowned for finding the G-spot of the Conservative Party. This week, Lord Heseltine of Thenford seems to have worked the trick across the political spectrum. Whatever the likelihood of it being implemented, his ‘No Stone Unturned in Pursuit of Growth’ report brought ...
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My legal life: Myles Jackman
I have a masters in film and used to run my own company making low-budget productions, but there was no money in it. A friend’s mother ran a small criminal law firm which back in 2000 dealt with the case of Afghans who hijacked a plane and forced it to ...
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My legal life: Geoff Wild
The whole point of lawyers is that we serve others. We make things better for other people. That is what drew me into the public sector in the first place and has kept me there ever since. At the end of the day, a client simply wants to be made ...
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Can’t stand newspapers? Then stand up for a free press
Every collector of modern quotations knows Tom Stoppard’s: ‘I’m with you on the free press. It’s the newspapers I can’t stand.’ Probably most of us would agree. What’s less well known is the context of the quote, perhaps because the play from which it comes, Night and Day (1978*), now ...
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Portal protestors issue letter before action
Personal injury lawyers have started a process that could lead to a judicial review into reforms planned for the Road Traffic Accident Portal next April.
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New portal fees threaten access to justice, says Society
Thousands of personal injury solicitors face uncertain futures after the government unveiled plans to slash fees for road traffic accident work.
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My legal life: Sarosh Zaiwalla
My late father was a solicitor. In 1925 he became one of the first, if not the first, Indians to qualify as an English solicitor. I trained at Stocken & Co in Fleet Street. They were maritime lawyers. The hardest challenges I faced as a lawyer came in my early ...
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Co-op ABS will help ‘end advice deserts’
Alternative business structures with national spread such as the Co-operative Legal Services will end the problem of ‘advice deserts’, a senior member of the Legal Services Commission has suggested. Ruth Wayte, the LSC’s director of legal and service development, said she was ‘particularly excited by the Co-op’s client focus’.
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NewsLord chancellor takes a constitutional in the Lords
The first question Chris Grayling had to field before the House of Lords’ formidable Constitution Committee yesterday looked like an easy toss: would he prefer to be addressed secretary of state or lord chancellor?
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EU withdrawal: at what price for lawyers?
I hope that the in-house journals of every trade and profession in the UK are now running articles like this, containing an assessment of the consequences for each particular sector of the UK withdrawing from the EU. It is obvious from the newspapers that we are in danger of sleepwalking ...
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My legal life: Margaret Owen
At Cambridge I did a lot of acting and seriously thought about a career in the theatre. But I decided to go for the bar, imagining myself a sort of ‘Portia’, fighting for the disadvantaged. My springboard into gender and women’s rights was being appointed head of law and policy ...
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Future-proofing the LeO
Winter is closing in. Here in the Midlands we have been under the threat of deluge for weeks. The only thing more common than flood warnings are the German sausages being enthusiastically chomped down by visitors to Birmingham’s Christmas market. And, as is increasingly the case, many colleagues here at ...
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Adviser warns on traffic accident portal fees
Major upheaval of the personal injury sector is happening too quickly and without evidence to support it, according to the government’s own adviser on the subject.
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My legal life: Christopher Murray
Both of my parents were in the medical profession but as a small child I remember listening to my mother talking about the iniquity of capital punishment – prompted by the Reginald Christie trial – and the likelihood that Timothy Evans had been wrongly hanged for a murder Christie had ...
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My legal life: Helena Kennedy QC
I had from the beginning an idealistic idea that I could be the kind of lawyer who might change things for ordinary people. I thought law could be used as a protection and as a tool for social change. I set up a legal advice centre with a social worker ...
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How To: create a shared back-office
Tuckers is a criminal law firm – one of the UK’s largest. We cover practice areas where margins have been severely challenged by changes in public policy and public funding. In February 2012, we announced our intention to make our billing, diary management and other back-office operations available to rival ...