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FeatureShow us the money
Windrush, contaminated blood, child sexual abuse – the state claims victims of high-profile scandals don’t need lawyers to secure proper compensation. Experience suggests otherwise, reports Eduardo Reyes.
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FeatureGhost in the machine
Generative AI is transforming legal work. That has potentially significant ramifications for professional negligence claims and how solicitors insure themselves.
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FeatureTouching the void
Seven years into mandatory pay gap reporting, Joanna Goodman reports on whether and how large law firms have used the data to narrow the gender divide.
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FeatureLIDW24: Uniting the dispute resolution community
Joanna Goodman speaks with Michael Fletcher, co-chair of London International Disputes Week 2024. The Gazette is this year's media sponsor.
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FeatureCrowded house
The bedrock of our criminal justice system, the magistrates’ courts, is in crisis. So is it time to consider a radical overhaul? Catherine Baksi reports.
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FeatureBuilding better
Economic and ecological challenges have combined to focus attention on the perceived shortcomings of 70-year-old landlord and tenant legislation. Maria Shahid reports on how this is affecting the commercial property market and the litigators who work in it.
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FeatureDouble take
Feelings run high on the multiple-choice ‘super-exam’ SQE1. Part two has had less scrutiny. Joanna Goodman takes a closer look.
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FeatureMy London club: reflections on the Garrick row
It matters how accessible elite institutions are.
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FeatureUnfinished business?
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act transformed the criminal justice process. As it turns 40, Catherine Baksi canvasses opinion on whether the legislation is showing its age.
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FeatureA matter of trust
In the second of two features on AI adoption, Joanna Goodman looks at the evolution of the technology’s regulation, as the legal sector learns how and when to trust it.
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FeatureOccupational hazards
Employment lawyers are braced for the reintroduction of fees at a time when tribunals continue to struggle with the volume of claims. Fresh legislative upheaval will also have a profound effect on how they work, writes Catherine Baksi.
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FeatureLook back in anger
It is 50 years since the pub bombings which led to the convictions of the Birmingham Six. Eduardo Reyes revisits episodes that shame the police, lawyers and judges with Chris Mullin, whose campaign exposed a notorious miscarriage of justice.
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FeatureThe longest journey
Far more women than men are entering the legal profession – but many struggle to move up its ranks. Structural reform is needed, hears Maria Shahid.
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FeatureThe shape of money
In the second of two articles on law firm profitability, Joanna Goodman examines the impact on the bottom line of ownership and structure.
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FeatureBreaking America
A legal tech mission to North America included UK start-ups keen to break into the priority markets of Canada and the US.
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FeatureOpening up on disability
Lawyers take pride in protecting the rights of disabled clients, but the profession’s own record on access is mixed. Are attempts to change that paying off? In the first of two features investigating disability and legal careers, Katharine Freeland reports on the position of trainees and junior lawyers.
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FeaturePaper trials: Conveyancing and the Building Safety Act
Solicitors are turning down leasehold instructions, blaming unacceptable professional risks. New Law Society guidance will help but fresh legislation is still needed, hears Maria Shahid.
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FeatureLife in limbo
Indeterminate sentences of ‘imprisonment for public protection’ are thoroughly discredited. So is the end of this manifestation of ‘state-sponsored psychological harm’ in sight at last? Catherine Baksi reports.
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Feature'Left in the lurch' in Liverpool
The city’s housing and homelessness crisis is not just a consequence of austerity. Government at both local and national level is failing in its legal duties to vulnerable people, reports Eduardo Reyes.