All articles by Jonathan Goldsmith – Page 30
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OpinionPII - who decides who will practise?
Changing the law may not make the slightest bit of difference to the availability of insurance.
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OpinionThe EU needs your justice priorities
Lawyers are invited to engage with the European Commission’s justice priority plans for the next five years.
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OpinionThe day I spoke at Harvard
The IBA has much to be grandiose about, but members should not be made to feel small.
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OpinionFinding a new plot
Developments in legal services often follow a similar pattern. Are current events more like Dracula or Sleeping Beauty?
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OpinionHow others see us
People beyond our borders view our regulatory framework with bemusement – there should be one regulator for all UK lawyers.
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OpinionLawyer education - lessons from the US
An ABA document on lawyer training in the United States considers if courses have become too academic.
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OpinionThe diversity of European bars
CEEBA meeting reveals different challenges lawyers face across the continent.
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OpinionIs there an EU ‘rule of law’ crisis?
EU justice commissioner says European Commission should have power to settle rule of law problems in member states.
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OpinionTrademarks: a new hot issue
Changes to trademark applications rules could have implications for small and medium-sized businesses.
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OpinionOn law and war
The Syrian situation reminds us that the law and courts exist to prevent a repeat of the horrors of the past.
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OpinionWeighing conveyancing against human rights
Does the current approach to human rights mean we should change our mind about the value of every aspect of a lawyer’s work?
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OpinionWe are all Edward Snowden’s lawyer
Recent revelations of government spying raise concerns about attorney-client privilege, writes Jonathan Goldsmith. What are bar associations doing to help protect it?
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OpinionExploding myths about cross-border movement
Jonathan Goldsmith looks at the directives that allow EU lawyers to practise in other member states without having to requalify.
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OpinionThe jury’s out on the European Public Prosecutor
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the case of United Kingdom vs the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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NewsA song and dance over Europe
I preferred to be a wall-flower last week rather than join in the wild and shameless hokey cokey led by the government over the decision both to opt out and then opt back in to various EU criminal law measures. We will opt out of 135 and opt back in ...
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OpinionThe best of summer holiday reading
It’s the time of year when every respectable journal tells you what reading to pack for the beach, and so here goes. Crime The fiction list for lawyers has not been strong this year. A late contender is the publication in the last few days of the Financial Action Task ...
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Data mining: what happens next?
Although I try to vary the topic covered each week, to show the range of issues being dealt with at European or international level, I do not apologise this week for going back to a subject that I have covered recently: the fall-out from the data mining revelations by the ...
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Tips for the future lobbyists’ register
The prime minister recently announced plans for a statutory register of lobbyists, with a bill to be published by the end of July. I don’t know whether the bill will include lawyers within its definition of lobbyists. I guess so, although I don’t want anything I say to be taken ...