All Opinion articles – Page 19
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Reforming the criminal justice system: juryless trials
With rape conviction rates low across the UK, is it time to ditch juries?
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Complaints to the SRA - addressing over-representation of BAME solicitors
We're shining a light on the structural and societal issues which could be influencing stubbornly worrying discrepancies.
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Legal aid expansion threatened by an antiquated IT system
Legal Aid Agency's digital system is a barrier to many proposals for legal aid reform. The government must invest in it now.
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Does AI spell the end for the SRA?
This is not an end-of-lawyer article, but an end-of-regulation question.
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Happy anniversary to the women in law pledge
As we celebrate the fourth year of the pledge, it remains a useful action tool for all organisations wherever they may be on their gender equality journey.
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Chalk walks the walk
For a lord chancellor and justice secretary to attend the London Legal Walk is a vanishingly rare event.
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Covid inquiry: mixed messages over disclosure
There are a lot of questions Boris Johnson needs to answer.
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Best of the blogs - 17 June 2023
10 June 2023. Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
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Europe should support Latin American integration
South America’s economies must learn to walk before they can run. But legal harmonisation can be the first step towards greater economic integration.
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Social Mobility Awareness Day: Profession asked to #SpeakMore
Launched in 2022, today’s Social Mobility Awareness Day exists to promote wider conversations around the issue and to encourage action that brings about positive change.
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Could exemplary damages discourage corporate wrongdoings?
A 'punishment tax' would change attitudes of current and prospective wrong-doers towards litigation risk.
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Will rent reform improve security for tenants?
Renters (Reform) Bill introduced to parliament last month could transform the private rental market.
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The last post
There should be a race to understand, and fix, flaws in legal ethics that the Horizon IT inquiry may throw into sharp relief.
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Disposable law, disposable lawyers
In political discourse, lawyers are to be picked up and used for one’s advantage, and then disposed of with a few jeers.
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Post Office scandal: echoes of Watergate?
Enormity of scandal for the profession can be compared to the break-in into the Democrats’ campaign office and ensuing cover-up.
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Lord Denning: Life, Law and Legacy
Not many judges have biographers. Very few indeed have three. The authors of the first two biographies of Lord Denning knew him well and wrote in his lifetime.