All Opinion articles – Page 73
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OpinionGo-to guide to compensating veterans
War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation: Second Edition | Andrew Bano
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OpinionLetters roundup: 25 February 2022
Driving out talent, in a ruck with Moore, and commercial guide confusion: your letters to the editor.
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OpinionLitigation funding and marginal gains
Disclosure orders should apply equally to defendants and claimants.
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OpinionOur law firms must get out of Russia
Do solicitors, law firms, and the Russian lawyers in international firms think things will just blow over? If so, they should be reading the situation more accurately.
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OpinionOur criminal justice system needs major surgery, not a band aid
Recent government initiatives are just more knee-jerk, low-cost solutions to a much bigger problem.
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OpinionMajor news stories usually bring changes for lawyers
It pays to think of the lawyers’ side of news reports, even if we are not the direct subject, so that the profession can prepare for any consequences.
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OpinionThe dangers of rushing to comment on a judgment
Lawyers and PRs will have read the Matrix judgment with a sense of relief it wasn't them.
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OpinionShow us the money
This week: from the sublime to the ridiculous. Paul Rogerson Tales of eye-watering pay hikes for City NQs are now resonating in the mainstream media. Sir Nigel Knowles, CEO of DWF and former chair of DLA, is the latest to opine on the subject. He warned ...
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OpinionInterrogating the economics of a failing system
The Legal Aid Market: challenges for publicly funded immigration and asylum representation | Jo Wilding
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OpinionHow to narrow the SQE attainment gap
On 21 January, the Solicitors Regulation Authority published the results of the first ever Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). The pass rate was 53%. Dr Cordella Bart-Stewart OBE However, the results showed a disparity between white, and black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates: 66% of white candidates ...
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OpinionCan we trust the SRA when issuing bigger fines?
The regulator’s publication policy is thin gruel, which doesn’t bode well for handing it extra powers.
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OpinionThe voices of senior women in law are important
'I never expected to be a practising barrister beyond the age of 30.'
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OpinionShould a lawyer go on strike?
Solicitors have differing views, suggesting a strike would be unlikely to succeed.
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OpinionA corporate awokening?
‘Woke capitalism’ has been defined as the corporate takeover of secular morality.
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OpinionMother in law: A guide to resigning
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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