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OpinionSRA conduct rules intrude into private life
We must hope the regulator will deploy its new power judiciously and without recourse to dogma.
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OpinionIt's that man again
Brandon Lewis's successor at Petty France is one, er, Dominic Raab. The portents are not good.
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OpinionHunt for efficiencies
Is the UK morphing, as some now contend, from being a developed to a developing economy?
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OpinionRaising the stakes
HSBC’s latest legal business briefing discloses that one in three law firms with turnover exceeding £18m now has an independent ESG committee.
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NewsStudents on a roll
Nearly 19,000 students graduated with law degrees from universities in England and Wales in 2021, the highest number on record. Why the huge increase?
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OpinionHack watch
Cash is needed to safeguard what ought to be universally regarded as a critical component of civil society: court reporting.
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OpinionAll quiet on the legal front?
If we are in for a quieter time, there is a chance that the hard slog of overdue maintenance work can start.
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OpinionThe price is wrong
Conveyancing practitioners tell the Gazette of a looming succession problem not dissimilar to that faced by the criminal bar.
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OpinionFirst, do no harm
As Brandon Lewis becomes the 10th lord chancellor since 2010, the most we can hope for is that he leaves the office in a better state than he found it.
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OpinionAll-in. All out
Criminal barristers are fast becoming an endangered species. Either the government capitulates, or the bar appears doomed.
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OpinionA good job, well done
Regulators would do well to properly assimilate the findings of a Legal Services Consumer Panel survey.
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OpinionA morally flawed act
Case for the Nationality and Borders Act to be revised is a technical as well as a moral one.
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OpinionGoing soft
‘Soft skills’ are indeed a commodity, but if they are perceived to be increasingly important in the law then this is all to the good.
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OpinionThird degree
‘Social justice warriors or ambulance chasers?’ That was a question recently posed by one European newspaper, in a rare explainer for the general public on litigation funders. Paul Rogerson The answer, of course, is ‘neither’. The third-party funding industry exists to generate a profit for investors, and ...
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OpinionPulling rank
I hesitated before alluding to the ‘Brexit dividend’ at the outset of this column. Please hold your fire, dear reader, while I find my tin helmet…
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OpinionMinister of defence?
Sir Christopher Bellamy’s appointment as justice minister means he may have to defend government policy which is seemingly at odds with his own report.
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OpinionWAGS and tales
You can’t blame the tabloids for the media feeding frenzy which has attended the so-called ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial, presently unfolding a stone’s throw from where I am now sitting. As an episode of Footballers’ Wives (highly recommended), it would probably have ended up on the cutting room floor. Totally unrealistic. ...