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OpinionWe can forgive a nurse serious mistakes. How about solicitors?
One regulator is prepared to look at ability to practise, rather than mistakes. It’s food for thought for the conflicted SRA.
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OpinionCan election law cope with the era of mass data?
Personal data may have been used on an industrial scale in recent elections - a challenge that has left electoral law trailing.
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OpinionGender pay gap: partners over the parapet
Law firms are starting to emulate accountancy giants, with predictable results.
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OpinionA Warrant to improve the rule of law
How the European arrest warrant has raised standards - and the implications of an explosive Irish court case.
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No cause for AI alarmism
Unfounded fears over homicidal robots must not be allowed to stifle innovation.
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OpinionOasis in a desert
The law centre network today welcomes a new constituent, in Suffolk, which aims to irrigate a legal aid desert.
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OpinionLaw’s culture wars
State of the union: National bars diverge markedly on conduct issues – how can the gap be bridged?
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OpinionWhy there’s nothing wrong in gold-plating trust in solicitors
Consumers should not be driven away by expensive rules, but don’t underestimate the lure of reassurance.
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OpinionShould Latham chief have stood down over sex messages?
Reflections on Latham and Watkins’s removal of their global chair for 'communications of a sexual nature'.
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OpinionBrexit: a justice treaty and red lines
The English Bar has come up with an interesting Brexit idea - a separate UK-EU treaty on justice issues.
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OpinionADR at a turning point?
Civil Justice Council review places dispute resolution on the cusp of a new digital era.
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OpinionSecond-guessing policy: the rule of law after UNISON
Supreme Court judgment took over a policy question that it was not for the court to decide.
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OpinionFuture claimants will feed algorithms, not fight insurers
Opponents of PI reforms seem to miss a key factor: the legal system as they know it is disappearing.
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OpinionLure of the Irish route
Ireland is fielding an upsurge in UK lawyers keen to safeguard their EU rights post-Brexit. There is still all to play for.
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OpinionHow achievable are the government's RTA claim reforms?
Patrick Allen asks how the government can put reforms for road traffic accident claims into place in just 12 months.
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OpinionWhat gender pay gap reporting doesn’t tell you: the partner pay gap
Sarah Chilton addresses the often hidden partner gender pay gap.
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OpinionMaking up the hours
An electronic costs bill is long overdue but reform does not have to mean chaos.