Leader – Page 2

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Moral support

    2023-10-03T13:44:00Z

    A new charter of ethics is needed, but it will take some drafting.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    'Gratuitous' regulation

    2023-09-27T13:25:00Z

    Aspects of the Bar Standards Board’s new guidance on social media strike me as questionable. 

  • Eduardo Reyes coutout
    Opinion

    Forgetting the basics

    15 September

    We are seeing regular and multiple micro-breakdowns in the rule of law.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Heroes welcome

    8 September 2023

    Last week’s cover feature dwelt on the dangerous scapegoating of immigration and asylum solicitors over what are, in reality, egregious government policy errors.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Tanks on the lawn

    2023-09-01T08:20:00Z

    The SRA’s capture of legal executives is by no means a done deal, although it is starting to look that way.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Unfollowing the money

    2023-08-09T14:46:00Z

    Comparators traditionally used to measure elite law firm performance appear to be on the way out.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Watchdog barks

    28 July 2023

    CMA's launch of a consumer enforcement investigation, focusing on will-writing, pre-paid probate plans and online divorce, suprised solicitors last week.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    PII charted

    21 July 2023

    Law Society’s most extensive and detailed survey of PII trends since 2018 is a must-read.

  • Eduardo Reyes coutout
    Opinion

    The view from in-house

    2023-07-20T13:45:00Z

    General counsel are far from passive recipients of City billing.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Disparate measures

    2023-07-06T13:39:00Z

    Review into longstanding imbalance in complaints to the SRA does not take us much further forward.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Go compare

    23 June 2023

    Turns out evaluating a lawyer is rather more involved than giving your Uber driver five stars. Still, the SRA is on a mission.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Chalk walks the walk

    2023-06-19T08:14:00Z

    For a lord chancellor and justice secretary to attend the London Legal Walk is a vanishingly rare event.

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
    Opinion

    The last post

    2023-06-13T14:03:00Z

    There should be a race to understand, and fix, flaws in legal ethics that the Horizon IT inquiry may throw into sharp relief.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Sterling work

    2023-06-01T13:45:00Z

    News that A&O plans to merge with Shearman & Sterling came out of nowhere. But is it a good idea?

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Painful divorce

    2023-05-24T15:17:00Z

    CILEX’s bid to jilt CILEx Regulation and elope with the SRA is intriguing. Not only of itself, but also for what it might portend.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Subjects object

    2023-05-18T09:29:00Z

    How can the scope of lawful protest be left so casually unclear? One plausible answer is that this lack of clarity is deliberate.

  • Michael-Cross-2019
    Opinion

    American beauty

    2023-05-08T00:01:00Z

    There are two types of country in the world: those where the government can tell lawyers what their ethical responsibilities are and those that cannot.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Chalk – and cheese?

    2023-05-03T15:28:00Z

    The new lord chancellor and justice secretary is unlikely to have clout in cabinet to secure the funding and investment the justice system so desperately needs. But he's far from powerless. 

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    A change in the weather

    2023-04-27T10:40:00Z

    Like it or not, climate change is a fast-growing business risk for lawyers.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Minding the language

    2023-04-20T11:01:00Z

    Family breakups are lifechanging. The language of the law should connote their gravity.