All Opinion articles – Page 206
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BOOK REVIEW: Law and Licensing: A Concise Guide for Shotgun and Rifle Owners (BASC Handbook)
A comprehensive overview of the law is followed by excellent advice on security.
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OpinionYoung adults top bad league
Treating young offenders as mere numbers will fail them and undermine prison reform.
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BOOK REVIEW: A Clinician’s Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act
The book is written in a direct and uncluttered style and the authors are not afraid to provide opinions on how to approach medico-legal issues.
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OpinionJackson again? Fixed costs review will attract scepticism
Is a fixed costs evangelist the right person to lead a review?
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OpinionClaimants forced to reveal funding secrets
Judgment considered a ‘test case’ for whether third-party funders can remain anonymous.
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OpinionEquality: men must lean in too
Equality is everyone's business. To achieve it, women lawyers need male counterparts to act with greater confidence.
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OpinionIs criticising judges only for the posh prints?
Britons have been denigrating the judiciary at least since Hogarth. Long may it continue.
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OpinionLaw firms showing the way on pay
More than half of the top-20 firms are signed up to a ‘real’ living wage.
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DWP difficulty
My frustration is that the department is essentially dictating when an estate can be distributed.
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OpinionStudents heading for the Brexit?
A brain drain of EU law students would damage universities and our profession.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Breaking Law: The Inside Guide to Your Legal Rights and Winning in Court or Losing Well
At £20 for over 500 pages this book is great value.
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BOOK REVIEW: Family Law Protocol
Heralded as the ‘authoritative set of best practice guidelines’, this book merits that description.
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Who wants big government?
If the Law Society wants to improve its decision-making it should reduce the size of its council, not add an extra layer of government.
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OpinionNot just Brexit judges who are under attack
The lord chief justice was concerned with more than just article 50 this week.
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OpinionArticle 50: much more than Brexit at stake
Today’s ruling marks the latest chapter in the struggle between the Crown and a democratically elected legislature.
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OpinionA good divorce?
With some help from policymakers we can change negative perceptions of divorce.
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OpinionEnglish law and foreign investment
Kazakhstan offers an example of how English law can be used to promote UK interests overseas.