Latest blog – Page 19
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OpinionEqual pay: what's next after Next loses landmark decision?
Retailer has lost a six-year equal pay claim against more than 3,500 current and former staff members.
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OpinionWhy we all need to collaborate on clinical negligence
It’s in all our interests to avoid expensive clinical negligence litigation and help the NHS.
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OpinionChatGPT on trial: Responsible AI use in the courts
Creeping use of AI in legal rulings presents problems of transparency and reliability.
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OpinionWorker Protection Act: Are employers getting the right advice?
Law firms must consider whether advice they are giving is appropriate, and the reputational risk associated with how well they comply with the new requirement.
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OpinionWhy all commercial cases should be budgeted
The current inflation-immune £10m limit is illogical.
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OpinionMike Lynch’s court battles may not be over
The tech entrepreneur, missing following Monday’s yacht sinking, achieved a number of firsts. Not all voluntarily.
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OpinionImmigration lawyers like us need more than warm words
We want to represent and help as many asylum seekers as we can. But we can no longer afford to do legal aid work in volume.
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OpinionMother in Law: A message to my immigration team colleagues
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionShould I quit Twitter? Probably. But I don’t have the energy to start over
Lawyers are leaving in their droves, leaving behind a vaccum of legal knowledge.
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OpinionWhat in-house needs from reform of legal regulation
More support for good in-house lawyers – and further to fall for ‘bad’ ones.
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OpinionThe consequences of the riots for lawyers
Some significant changes for the legal profession are becoming apparent only now.
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OpinionAI action plans need to weather the coming winter
Legislators are treating the technology as an unstoppable force. It isn't.
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OpinionUK riots: underpaid, overstretched lawyers to the rescue
The government's criminal justice response will be heavily dependent on lawyers' goodwill and sense of duty.
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OpinionCourt approval added to assisted dying bill
Although still recognisably the measure Lord Falconer has been trying to get through parliament for a decade, his latest bill has picked up some safeguards along the way.
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OpinionMother in Law: Procrastination part 2 – slay the day!
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionPlanning: is a change gonna come?
We may not get the planning system that we deserve; we will get the one that we pay for.
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OpinionMake sure solicitor apprenticeships come with a badge
Law firms and in-house legal departments that hire apprentices should replicate some of the wider benefits of the traditional 3-4 years at university.
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OpinionDown with all this
The way protest is treated by the law is one of those legal topics where everyone has a view.