All Opinion articles – Page 270
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OpinionCourts, TV and Twitter – the perfect combination?
Electronic media will change courtroom behaviour, but not necessarily in the way most people assume.
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OpinionConsiderations on GHRs
A look at other jurisdictions tells us that we must take a granular and nuanced approach to pricing legal work.
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Tax clampdown plan is ‘idiocy’
A new strict liability criminal offence of failing to declare offshore income and gains contravenes most legal principles.
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Earliest call of duty?
Memories of being perhaps the first duty solicitors – and assisting in court at launch of Reading music festival.
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OpinionSome corner of a foreign field
The Ypres grave of articled clerk Cyril Montagu Pope is worth visiting.
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OpinionComparison site and a free cuddly toy
How comparison website for solicitors’ indemnity would make system more efficient.
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OpinionCocky Co-op has to lick its wounds
The company simply grew too quickly – and the clear-up job is a painful one.
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OpinionClients’ money in the news
A raft of measures to prevent money laundering highlights the difficulty lawyers face in holding confidential financial information for clients in a high-tech world.
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OpinionHonest, officer, it’s in the post
Changes to the time-honoured car tax disc rule may be of interest to lawyers.
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OpinionOur foreign policy could reach for the law
A summer of distressing international news bolsters the case for using universal jurisdiction to apprehend people accused of war crimes.
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OpinionExceptional funding – the emperor’s new clothes
With funding granted in only 4% of the 1,789 applications, and in only 12 family cases, the government cannot simply insist that the scheme is working.
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OpinionDose of realism needed on hourly rates
The arguments about hourly rates must be speedily resolved, with realism applied by both paying and receiving parties.