All Opinion articles – Page 258
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OpinionA judge needs judgement
There is one quality no judge can do without, as a recent episode highlights.
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Opinion
Two-tier legal system
Further court fee increases mean more misery for SMEs at the hands of a government that insists it is trying to protect them.
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OpinionLegal education crisis – US-style
The UK has its fair share of challenges, but in America the situation is much graver.
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OpinionThe cost of patent trolling
Research shows that activity by non-practising entities is bad news in the US. The UK should beware.
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OpinionProsecuting hate crime
The police must be given adequate training to improve the national response to hate crime.
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OpinionAsylum: the new trial by ordeal
Europe’s leaders have collectively returned us to the barbarous legal past.
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OpinionArrested 17-year-olds need a fairer deal
The forthcoming Policing and Criminal Justice Bill should reform outdated procedures and help children in police custody.
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OpinionDivided we fall
The family bar’s complaints about solicitor-advocates are misdirected. And where’s the evidence?
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OpinionEuropean lawyers in history
Two very different lawyers from recent history were involved in struggles which we recognise today.
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OpinionLegal aid action suspension
Practitioner groups may have suspended their legal aid boycott, but this ‘goodwill gesture’ should not be mistaken for defeat.
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OpinionCosts and clinical negligence
Catherine Dixon, chief executive of the Law Society, considers the Department of Health’s proposal to fix costs in clinical negligence.
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OpinionSRA diversity data-gathering is irrelevant to small firms
I resent the need to gather, collate and submit diversity data to the SRA – it is wholly irrelevant for a small firm such as mine. We are two partners with two part-time support staff.
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OpinionChilcot report - let’s call on time on the lawyers
No amount of delaying tactics over the publication of the Chilcot Report can reduce the culpability of those responsible for the Iraq war. But how should the role of the legal profession in the delayed report be judged? Are we in danger of being criticised ourselves?
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OpinionSummer of content for solicitors?
With another tax deadline behind us, the legal sector is generally a happy place.
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OpinionComplaints handling
The compaints-handling system is still stacked in favour of the unreasonable client.