All Opinion articles – Page 14
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Letters roundup: 15 September 2023
Racist views in politics, clarity on wills for LGBTQ+ clients and televised justice: your letters to the editor.
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Government has moral imperative to fix child court backlogs
Family lawyers would welcome an active role from the government in the promotion of alternative dispute resolution.
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Lady Justice is bleeding
Fixed recoverable costs regime is unfit for purpose - the time has come to hold those responsible to account.
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Click to convey: a lesson from Norway
Want to see what a real home information pack looks like? Look north.
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Lawtech: We must not take our leading position for granted
Our ambition is to make the UK a hub for lawtech, and a haven for legal innovators.
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Mother in Law: Family holidays
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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A great thinker who shaped Scotland’s contract law
Contract Before the Enlightenment: The Ideas of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, 1619-1695
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Abusers abusing ‘parental alienation’
'Parental alienation' is alleged far too often, which is undermining trust in the family courts.
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Heroes welcome
Last week’s cover feature dwelt on the dangerous scapegoating of immigration and asylum solicitors over what are, in reality, egregious government policy errors.
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Changing Ethical Landscapes
This week we publicly launched our professional ethics programme – Changing Ethical Landscapes web hub.
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Fixed costs extension will mean a worse service. Clients need to be told
There is no point spinning it: the client-lawyer relationship will have to change from October.
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Time to overhaul legal regulation - again?
Piecemeal changes and mission creep are undermining the 2007 ‘Clementi’ settlement to the point where a wider review is becoming necessary.
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How to approach the CILEX debate
I love reading Twitter (sorry, X) accounts of people with whose political views I heartily disagree.
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An LCJ who scaled the 'pinnacle of public service'
Lord Burnett of Maldon's private secretary noted that the lord chief justice had 'done more than you could ever know on your behalf’.
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Making Decisions Judicially: A Guide for Decision-Makers
Godfrey Cole, Yvette Genn, Mary Kane, Christopher Lethem, Mark Ockelton, Meleri Tudur, Nick Wikeley.
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Tanks on the lawn
The SRA’s capture of legal executives is by no means a done deal, although it is starting to look that way.