All Opinion articles – Page 197
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OpinionNational pro bono week: defending our children
Pro bono support for child defence can help start them on a new journey.
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OpinionBrowders in arms
Bill and Joshua Browder - the parent-child combination that changed the law without being lawyers.
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OpinionArrest report
The Home Office recently reported that the total number of arrests has fallen from 1.5 million in 2008 to 779,660 in 2017 (a total drop of 48%). In fairness to the police, it should be acknowledged that making an arrest is not a prerequisite for an offence to be properly ...
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OpinionClass in the background
Without layering in data on life advantage, diversity reporting is of limited use.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas
One eye on the top table.
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OpinionCourts are failing children
Sir James Munby is using his final months as family court president to urge radical reform of justice for under-18s.
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OpinionMore than a public good
Pro bono does not exist in a vacuum – it needs the support of a changing profession.
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OpinionPurple lifeboat holed
The ‘real’ daily rate for a deputy district judge has effectively made the role an expensive hobby. If this continues standards will only fall
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OpinionMediation misunderstood
I read with interest John Hyde’s ‘The mediation dilemma’. I retired from private practice in April to focus on my mediation practice. I have seen mediation from two perspectives – that of the solicitor advising his client and then as mediator. I am not sure that some lawyers see the ...
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OpinionWhistleblowing: Harder but more crucial than ever
A culture of hostility towards whistleblowing and self-accountability will create a system with no public trust and confidence.
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OpinionDon't mind the gap
Returning to law after a break does not mean apologising for the gap in your CV.
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OpinionSorry Gemma Collins, I'd advise you can't make a claim
TOWIE star may want compensation but that doesn’t mean she’s automatically entitled to it.
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OpinionEnglish the tool for legal dominance
As anglophone dispute resolution centres multiply, the UK faces a fierce fight to remain a global legal centre.
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OpinionAction for happiness
Too often flexible working policies at law firms are mere window-dressing. That has to change
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OpinionIt all adds up
With regard to VAT on online property searches, surely any solicitor acquiring such a search will spend time on assessing the search, charge for that time and add VAT on that charge. Perhaps I am over simplifying, but does that not answer all the tribunal judge’s (and HMRC’s) arguments? ...
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OpinionThe force is against you
I read with sympathy the letter headed ‘Why is my son paid a pittance?’. The answer, however, is very simple: market forces. I am told that when I qualified in 1969 there were about 26,500 practising solicitors in England and Wales. There are now over 140,000 (news, 23 October). Michael ...
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Balfour and the law
100 years on, a 67-word statement by the British government still provokes fury. We should ask why.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Why professor Susskind is wrong
What’s To Become of the Legal Profession? - Michael H. Trotter
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Standing in your own two feet
A Straightforward Guide to How to Be a Litigant in Person in the New Legal World – representing yourself in the civil courts, Michael Langford