Latest blog – Page 149
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OpinionBrexit: maintaining cross-border rights
Cross-border practising rights must be a priority in planning for Brexit.
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OpinionMilitary claims: killing the lawyers?
Politicians and the press must stop vilifying lawyers for doing their job and upholding the rule of law.
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OpinionSRA 'jumping the gun'?
New vision for regulation should worry junior lawyers, says JLD chair Leanne Maund.
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OpinionThe impact of the IBA
What good is the International Bar Association to a criminal legal aid solicitor in Rotherham?
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OpinionUber-regulator’s blurred vision
The LSB’s grand plan for overhauling regulation has been damned with faint praise.
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OpinionOne size does not fit all
The big four’s successful business model relies on the cross-selling of products.
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OpinionConstitutional monstrosity
Whatever the fate of Phil Shiner, the Legal Aid Agency has to go.
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OpinionFinally, a judgment we can all understand
I don’t want the law to be dumbed down, just made more manageable.
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OpinionBrexit: maintaining cross-border dispute regulations
Post-Brexit trade rules must not imperil more than £500bn of British business.
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OpinionPrivatising family law by the back door
Private financial dispute resolution hearings - a BUPA to the courts’ NHS - are thriving.
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OpinionTTIP, globalisation and lawyers
It is timely to contemplate what the retreat from globalisation might mean for our profession.
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OpinionFighting crime post-Brexit
Law Society chief executive Catherine Dixon explains why we must retain the European arrest warrant.
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OpinionPromoting justice in China
I was part of a delegation in Beijing that saw how legal aid is reaching clients with special needs.
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OpinionTransparency, tax and lawyers
Expect tense negotiations over forcing lawyers to disclose the details of tax schemes. But will their outcome matter in light of Brexit?
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OpinionTaking back control of referendum campaigning
Parliament must look again at the rules on donations to ensure fairness in future polls.
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OpinionABSs: open to failure?
In the legal sector, there has not been a great flowering of alternative business structures.