All Opinion articles – Page 4
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Firms as complaint machines: The SRA’s solution to a problem that doesn’t exist
Client satisfaction with lawyers stands at 87% - so naturally the SRA wants more complaints.
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The family justice system is failing to protect those most at risk
National Audit Office's latest report delivers a sobering assessment of a system struggling to meet the needs of vulnerable children and families.
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Paralegals are now recognised as a genuine branch of the legal profession
The view of what a paralegal is and what they can do has changed dramatically over the past decade.
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Let slip the dogs of law
When the international order is breaking down, why are lawyers not more vocal in protest?
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Sell-by dates
SME law firms are losing their appetite for mergers. Buyouts? That’s a different story.
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Defendant firms are to blame for soaring credit hire costs
Claimant firms want to find a way to keep cases out of court - but do defendants agree?
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A smorgasbord of navigable wisdom
Fiona du Feu reviews 'Risk and Compliance Questions and Answers (2nd edition)'.
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Mother in Law: Scott Simmons, rainmaker maker
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
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Warning signals
Fraud Markers, De-banking, and Financial Crime: A Legal Analysis of Counter-fraud Practices in the UK and Beyond.
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UK must not repeat Australia’s mistakes of constraining access to justice
Litigation funding in the UK is at a critical juncture.
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Protecting juniors from exploitation
Martin Whitehorn, Law Society Council member for junior solicitors, demonstrates the range of issues which people are getting help with, qualified or otherwise.
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EU-UK lawyers: common values
At a time of division and polarisation, much unites us as lawyers. The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe Plenary was an occasion to witness such unity.
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Transitioning to a nature-positive and net-zero future
Rob Biddlecomb reviews 'The Law of Net Zero and Nature Positive'.
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Merger mania subsides
Appetite for mergers and acquisitions has ‘plummeted’, LexisNexis report finds.
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Naming rights and wrongs: Will Hill Dickinson stick at Everton?
Hill Dickinson is now moving in the same circles as Allianz and Spotify.
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A special tribunal for aggression against Ukraine
New court would try senior political and military leaders accused of planning, preparing, initiating or executing the war of aggression that Russia and its allies launched in 2022.
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Cape and the crusader
Michael Cross reviews David Kinley's 'In a Rain of Dust: Death, Deceit and the Lawyer who Busted Big Asbestos'.
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How the Reformation created a patchwork
James E Hurford reviews 'The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law'.