All Letters articles – Page 18
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OpinionWanted: a first-class lawyer
The next lord chancellor should be drawn from the most senior ranks of the judiciary and Queens Counsel.
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Gender and rehabilitation
I agree with J Howard Shelley (letters, 10 April). On prisons and prison policy, it is without question right that gender considerations and concerns must go towards informing the treatment of and efforts to rehabilitate all inmates. That said, it is equally important that it should remain just one of ...
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OpinionPractice made perfect
A supportive training and learning environment at a law firm is far more beneficial to a prospective solicitor than the LPC.
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Standards downgrade
The criminal standard of proof in disciplinary proceedings is needed to hold regulators to account for the quality of their investigations
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OpinionQualifying remarks
SQE will provide a necessary minimum rather than the fully-fledged standard the market demands, candidates will still be expected to show as much talent and experience as before
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OpinionSystemic unfairness
The SQE may improve access to the profession but it does not address the issue of firms recruiting those who have undertaken internships.
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Stuck in a chain, and not app-y
A conveyancing app that keeps tabs on what is happening down the chain would highlight delays and encourage competitiveness
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More roadblocks in claiming
The road traffic accident claims portal has now been further complicated; demanding all sorts of extra information to a wholly unnecessary degree of precision.
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IT failing the judiciary
Peter Glover (Guest column, 24 April) is absolutely right to be concerned about the bleak outlook which will inevitably result from the government’s obsession with IT in courts and tribunals.
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Life-affirming?
‘The Co-operative Group is integrating legal services with funerals to create a new Life Planning Division’ (Gazette, 10 April).
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Peer pressure
Many congratulations to the Gazette for correctly referring to life peers as (eg) ‘Lord Howard (Michael Howard)’ which also tells us who he was before being ennobled. Very helpful.
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Coming clean on costs
My firm Davies Arnold Cooper showed the way on price transparency. What a pity our initiative needs to be relaunched by regulators
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Gigs at the Met
Good story from John Hyde: ‘Legal assistant Lee Hull fined £2k over university lies on bogus CV’. But could I suggest an alternative headline?: ‘Hull gets confused over Leeds universities’.
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Chancery pain
I am a civil litigator whose work rarely takes me to the Chancery Division of the High Court.