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Opinion
'Ch-ch-changes: turn and face the strange'
The legal profession is changing under our feet. Statistics give only a partial picture.
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Protesters forced government’s hand on new curbs
New public order powers have been announced by ministers. Different branches of government have promoted the proposed reforms in very different ways.
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Who wins from PACCAR? Cartelists and corporate wrongdoers
Government should deal head on with last year's Supreme Court ruling, Road Haulage Association chief writes.
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Junior lawyers: Sherlock Holmes and business development
Martin Whitehorn shares an excerpt from a story that inspired him.
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Is it different if we profit from providing a foreign court?
We never consider that our country makes an appreciable living through the provision of what is in effect a foreign court to other countries.
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The plight of women facing Taliban courts
A legal scholar in Afghanistan, whose real identity is known to the Gazette, has sent the following disturbing report.
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Transparency pilot offers a window on society
Expansion of media reporting will play a vital role in revealing how decisions are made in the family courts.
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Compassion on the ration
This week’s Gazette carries an exposé of what happens when the tattered compact between state and citizen starts to break down completely.
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Mother in Law: Selling properties held by a surviving tenant in common
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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If only lawyers had tractors
Farmer demonstrators carried slogans like ‘No farmers, no food’. We could say ‘No lawyers, no justice’.
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From ADHD to LLB
Navigating the legal profession with high-functioning attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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What the ICJ ‘genocide’ ruling means for Israel
The ICJ president Joan Donoghue must have tried hard to reach agreement on South Africa’s claim against Israel under the Genocide Convention of 1948.
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Labour pains
Organised labour is predictably outraged by the resurrection of employment tribunal fees. Trade unions can hardly claim to be surprised, however.
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Huge fines show SRA is misusing its powers
The regulator has radically increased its powers since its creation in 2007, with no corresponding increase in accountability.
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The trainees of tomorrow – time to change our expectations?
Expectations placed on aspiring lawyers have shifted with the times, as has the skillset. And it’s shifting again.
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Labour's great lord chancellor
Richard Burdon Haldane was in the thick of almost every major political and intellectual debate of the day.
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Mother in Law: In defence of the semicolon
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Bucking the market
We have learned to accept the primacy of ‘market forces’. Yet exceptions can always be made for reasons of political expediency.
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What image best represents us?
On the one hand, slogans and logos are unimportant. But what remains is the debate about our identity.