All Opinion articles – Page 243
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OpinionBudget 2016: succession barriers
There is nothing in George Osborne’s announcement to help enable partners to address retirement issues.
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OpinionLegal apprenticeships – nothing to lose
Widening access to the profession will ensure high-calibre candidates from all backgrounds succeed.
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OpinionLand Registry sale may not compute
Technology could make the title register less attractive to private buyers.
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OpinionPlaying with regulation
The LSB appears to have overlooked its duty to encourage an ‘independent, strong, and effective’ profession.
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OpinionAn intellectually sloppy AG
Jeremy Wright’s speech on the role of the attorney general achieved the advocate’s nightmare.
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OpinionEasy way round new bail limits
Policing and Criminal Justice Bill must do more to reduce uncertainty for suspects and victims.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Love Lose Live: Divorce is a Rollercoaster
The thinking, actions and reasoning of the family’s children are conveyed with some consideration.
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BOOK REVIEW: Disciplinary and Regulatory Proceedings (eighth edition)
Unlike its predecessor, this edition has been designed with the practitioner in mind.
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OpinionBrexit – leaving messages
Law and justice issues must be to the fore in event of Brexit negotiations.
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Roger Wicks: a leading light remembered
Roger Wicks, a pioneering figure in claimant clinical negligence, will be sadly missed – except perhaps by the National Health Service.
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OpinionLawyers are proving shy over short trials
Streamlining in the Rolls Building has got off to a slow start.
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OpinionTrade deals, lawyers and the EU
Are we better off on our own in international trade deals with Canada and the US, or better off in the EU?
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OpinionCustodial sentencing treats women harshly
Better use of existing legal provisions can alter an unjust imbalance in sentencing.
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OpinionDrive out the solicitor touts
Regulators must abandon their indifferent attitude to touting for business.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Extradition Law: a practitioner’s guide (2nd edition)
The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to a tortuous area of law.
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Mortgage alert
Imagine the problems if the usual undertaking to discharge the mortgage had been given pre-completion and the bank then raised these pre-conditions to a discharge.
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OpinionWarming the bench
A large number of jobs are soon to become vacant in the senior judiciary. So who’s in the running?
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Go Set a Watchman
To mark the passing of Harper Lee, we take a look at her long-awaited second novel.