All Letters articles – Page 11

  • Letters
    Opinion

    Generation gap

    26 March 2018

    The traditional partnership model of succession planning looks ill-equipped to accommodate the aspirations of millennials.

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    Let down by the watchdog

    26 March 2018

    Stephen Lockwood details his experience with the Legal Ombudsman service for lodging a complaint.

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    Employment exchange

    19 March 2018

    Flagrant injustice of employment tribunal fees has been replaced by an understaffed system ill-equipped to deal with upsurge in claims.

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    Double bind

    19 March 2018

    H D Kehler discusses the Criminal Legal Aid Contract 2017.

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    Raise the judicial retirement age

    19 March 2018

    John C Miller questions the judicial retirement age.

  • European Court of Justice
    Opinion

    Patent poser

    12 March 2018

    Stephen Hornsby responds to Gazette article ‘Ratify the EU patent court, Egan tells minister’.

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    Opinion

    Jackson’s outstanding legacy

    12 March 2018

    Lord Justice Jackson has made a valuable contribution to changing the litigation costs landscape – and it will continue beyond retirement.

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    Opinion

    New horizons

    12 March 2018

    Boris Kremer remarks on Jackson LJ’s work in Kazakhstan.

  • Liz Truss
    Opinion

    Who are you to call me a ‘blob’?

    12 March 2018

    J Howard Shelley is offended by Liz Truss’s comments this week directed at the legal profession.

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    Opinion

    Now hear this: live is best

    12 March 2018

    Malcolm Fowler is weary of the issues to arise from a ’rush towards video and other remote hearing formats’.

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    Police training

    5 March 2018

    Tony N Guise writes his expereince of the prosecution process following a recent Gazette article.

  • Letters
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    Losing the plot on fees

    5 March 2018

    Developers’ lawyers are getting away with extortionate engrossment fees which are at odds with rules justifying charges to clients.

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    Career path for criminal law

    5 March 2018

    Retired criminal lawyer John Greenwood reflects on the position of trainee criminal law solicitors and barristers.

  • Letters
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    Fluid concern

    26 February 2018

    Neil Somerfield raises concerns over mandatory gender titles in county courts.

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    Complaisant judges

    26 February 2018

    Dr Stephen Pacey laments the current state of the justice system.

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    Base reform on fact not whim

    26 February 2018

    Qamar Anwar calls for a debate about how personal injury victims are treated and the way in which insurers operate.

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    Why is an error a ‘blunder’?

    26 February 2018

    Cartoonish language should be avoided when discussing medical negligence if we are to move to a truly transparent learning culture.

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    Justice needs protecting

    19 February 2018

    The appointment of yet another lord chancellor is indicative of the low regard in which the present administration holds the role of justice secretary.

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    Dragged through the mud

    19 February 2018

    Sexual harassment must be stopped, but allegations are sometimes made up and ‘naming and shaming’ is not necessarily the solution.

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    Branch finder

    19 February 2018

    In reponse to Kate Neil’s article on banking for lawyers, Angela Jackson finds that ‘the credit controller who knew his customers’ is alive and well.