Leader – Page 7

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Only connect?

    10 May 2021

    Pronouncement by bar councils of Britain and Ireland on remote hearings was notable for its singularity alone.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Information is power

    3 May 2021

    How law and access to justice operate is not something most people want to think about until they are obliged to engage with them. How do we change this?

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Political football

    26 April 2021

    European Super League affair has burnished the appeal of legal careers in competition and sports law.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Keeping on keeping on

    19 April 2021

    ‘Crisis, what crisis?’ Paul Rogerson Older readers may recall that this fatal utterance doomed Jim Callaghan in 1979, ushering in Thatcherism. It didn’t matter that the last Old Labour PM did not actually speak those words in the wake of the ‘Winter of Discontent’. ‘Crisis, what ...

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Risk - a new frontier

    12 April 2021

    How can one reach a new definition of ‘risk’ to a legal practice in an environment of remote and/or hybrid working?

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Rebels with a cause

    29 March 2021

    Junior lawyers have become increasingly vocal – indeed militant –  on issues such as diversity, bullying, toxic masculinity in the City and work-life balance.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Taking the high road

    22 March 2021

    It was clear to me that many solicitors south of the border envied the Scots their seemingly inviolable autonomy.

  • Monidipa Fouzder 2018
    Opinion

    Actions speak louder

    15 March 2021

    The US has adopted a tough approach to diversity. But what is UK plc doing?

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Covering the bases

    8 March 2021

    Law firms renewing PII last year encountered the hardest market seen since demutualisation two decades before. 

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Demobbed armies

    1 March 2021

    What the Uber case has once again demonstrated is the tardiness of the law and its enforcement.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Office politics

    22 February 2021

    Firm’s blueprint for a post-pandemic office environment was met with scorn from some of the profession’s more conservative moral gatekeepers.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Savings at a premium

    15 February 2021

    Profit margins on motor books will remain healthy.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    The human touch

    8 February 2021

    One’s experience of lockdown is intensely personal, shaped as it is by temperament, age, material circumstance and even gender (women do more home schooling, for example).

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Third-party poopers

    1 February 2021

    Malicious content posted by unhappy customers on third-party web platforms can cost a firm money.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Away from home

    25 January 2021

    In current circumstances, how many examples are there where it is business-critical that staff come in to the office?

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Hiding from history

    18 January 2021

    The past is messy, contradictory and often ambiguous. But it does a disservice to the present to hide from it.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    End of the beginning

    11 January 2021

    The appearance of legal services in last month’s Brexit deal was certainly a pleasant surprise.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    When money talks

    14 December 2020

    White solicitors take home £9 an hour more than their BAME counterparts. 

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Paying the price

    7 December 2020

    SRA cannot afford for a such a debacle as the Beckwith case to recur.

  • Michael-Cross-2019
    Opinion

    Open justice is our birthright

    30 November 2020

    It is unacceptable that in the digital age court judgments are not available for free to all-comers.