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OpinionLifting the lid on Worboys
Bar is set high for a successful bid to halt former taxi driver’s release.
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OpinionJudges' pensions row must end now
The government should spend three hours discussing ways to improve judicial morale, not on further litigation.
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OpinionPI firms are being hoist by their own petard
The arguments are the same, but from different voices. Why should clients not challenge costs deductions?
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OpinionCouncil of Europe: more protection ahead for lawyers
There was a significant development at the Council of Europe last week. On the Day of the Endangered Lawyer, 24 January, its Parliamentary Assembly adopted a recommendation to draft a convention on the profession of lawyer.
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OpinionNot good enough, LSB
Why does the super-regulator only care about a select few of its statutory objectives?
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OpinionEndangered lawyers: Closer to home than you think
‘Mounting hostility toward human rights lawyers’ in Northern Ireland threatens to spill over into violence.
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OpinionEndangered lawyers: Poland's creeping coup
Poland has taken a step closer to authoritarianism. Lawyers everywhere should protest.
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OpinionMicrosoft SCOTUS case: UK lawyers take note
As threats to professional secrecy proliferate, solicitors need to hope Microsoft wins.
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OpinionDoing our duty on Grenfell
Human rights should be at the heart of the official response to Grenfell.
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OpinionKeen cooks up a half-baked plan for PI reforms
Minister’s skeleton argument leaves more questions than answers.
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OpinionPre-Brexit notices - lawyers beware
What effect do three recent notices in a series from the European Commission have on lawyers?
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OpinionDispelling the D-Day myth
Media hype around Divorce Day does not reflect well on solicitors.
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OpinionDoes Arkin cap no longer fit?
Bailey could spell the end of a bountiful benefit enjoyed by funders since 2005.
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OpinionPanama papers: we need to talk about professional secrecy
European parliament recommendations reek with suspicion of our industry.