All Opinion articles – Page 79
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OpinionLewis must settle with the strikers
Catherine Baksi Brandon Lewis, the newly appointed justice secretary and lord chancellor, must negotiate an end to the criminal bar dispute. The government may not understand why 80% of specialist criminal barristers voted to start an unprecedented, indefinite, all-out strike last week, but it will care about ...
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OpinionThe Straw man is back - and this time it's personal
Labour's last lord chancellor shares some candid thoughts on his successors.
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OpinionChanging lives: Scotland’s new drugs strategy
A landmark report has called for a new approach to how drug addiction is addressed in Scotland. England and Wales are years behind.
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OpinionThe SRA takes first steps on climate change
The SRA, long silent on matters relating to the profession and climate change, issued two documents last week that mentioned it.
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OpinionTruss may have one unlikely group in a cold sweat
New prime minister's stint as lord chancellor was brief, but she did manage to pick a fight with the insurance lobby.
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OpinionAssessment of Mental Capacity: A Practical Guide for Doctors and Lawyers (5th edition)
General editor Alex Ruck Keene.
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OpinionCleaning up after Raab and Braverman
What have the current justice secretary and attorney general achieved and what immediate challenges face their successors?
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OpinionAll-in. All out
Criminal barristers are fast becoming an endangered species. Either the government capitulates, or the bar appears doomed.
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OpinionThe Judicial Mind: A Festschrift for Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore
Edited by Brice Dickson and Conor McCormick.
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OpinionMother in law: Making the most of the next chapter
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionSQE: one year on
Law Society president I. Stephanie Boyce reflects on the first 12 months since the Solicitors Qualifying Exam was introduced.
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OpinionWhen Crown court judges start to look young
The wheels of justice kept turning - just - on day one of the defence barristers’ indefinite walk-out.
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OpinionWhat lawyers read on the beach
Lawyers turned to a mixture of fiction and history when putting their feet up this summer.
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OpinionLabour must stand shoulder to shoulder with the criminal bar
The justice system has been held together by the goodwill of those working in it for far too long.
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OpinionCompetition law still isn’t up to the job
The government and the CMA always insisted competition law would protect people. It doesn’t and it never did.
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OpinionLawyers who engaged the enemy more closely
A wartime call for 'Gentlemen with yachting experience' attracted some extraordinary legal talent - and courage.
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OpinionAnti-social behaviour injunctions are a great unknown
We simply don’t know how many injunctions are applied for, how many are issued and breached, and what happens to those judged to have breached them.