All articles by Jonathan Goldsmith – Page 6
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OpinionTearing up the ‘lefty lawyers’ script
The continuing use of the ‘lefty lawyer’ label by the government looks set to become a feature of the long campaign leading to the next election.
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OpinionCan lawyers be utopians?
Sometimes we should spend time considering the eternal and beautiful, and how we should aim to construct a new version of it.
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OpinionFooting the bill for our own values
We need to wean ourselves off the notion that the government is going to continue to pay for everything forever.
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OpinionThe climate crisis and the courts
Just as Gandhi was a highly controversial figure in his lifetime, so were the defendants in Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court last week.
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OpinionWelcome to the Ministry of High Standards and Professionalism
We must not take what happens – or indeed dies in silence - in our Ministry of Justice as indicative of what happens in the wider world, and certainly not as being normal.
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OpinionThank goodness for immigration lawyers
Part of this article is a call for support for immigration solicitors in the difficult times ahead. The second part is a response to duty.
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OpinionChatGPT: bad jokes, good first drafts
Lawyers must embrace the new artificial intelligence wunderkind.
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OpinionSolicitors need ECHR rights, too
Two solicitors were assassinated in the UK in recent decades, and neither has received the justice that they deserve.
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OpinionThe impact of EU law on lawyers' fees
Will our current level of consumer rights continue if and when the Retained EU Law Bill becomes an act of parliament?
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Opinion'The law is closed!'
We need a new Charles Dickens, to highlight the miseries of our disintegrating systems, and in particular our legal system.
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OpinionEnd-of-year review
From public sector strikes, through to the Russian invasion, climate change, and the death of the Queen, law firms have faced a myriad challenging issues.
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OpinionLegal professional privilege reaffirmed
Court of Justice of the European Union decides interesting case on lawyers' rights.
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OpinionThe SRA and whistleblowing
The regulator has long encouraged whistleblowing. Now it wants to be recognised as an official body to which a whistleblowing disclosure can be made.
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OpinionSolicitors should not police economic crime
A new addition to the public interest objectives is an attempt to advance specific government policy through regulatory manipulation. It must be resisted.
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OpinionLaw firms face political threats over ESG
As efforts to combat climate change intensify, we can expect the role of lawyers to be challenged more aggressively.
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OpinionHamlet without the prince
Events to play out this month may have a significant impact on the future identity both of our profession and of the government.
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OpinionDoes our duty to the client trump the public interest?
From the arguments the question provoked at last week’s International Bar Association conference, it is clear not everyone agrees.
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OpinionProtecting the rights of lawyers
A convention protecting only lawyers raises interesting questions, to which there are no easy answers.
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OpinionLawfare slips through parliamentary warfare
Despite many other calls on MPs’ time during the last week of the Truss government, opportunity was still found for a lawfare debate.
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OpinionBrave new hybrid world
We may as well get used to the fact that our ways of participating in meetings and inter-connecting have changed forever.