Opinion – Page 174
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OpinionCouncil of Europe: more protection ahead for lawyers
There was a significant development at the Council of Europe last week. On the Day of the Endangered Lawyer, 24 January, its Parliamentary Assembly adopted a recommendation to draft a convention on the profession of lawyer.
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OpinionNot good enough, LSB
Why does the super-regulator only care about a select few of its statutory objectives?
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OpinionTime to resurrect Justice
After the government reshuffled its ‘middle-ranking’ justice secretary, David Gauke should act now to restore the role of lord chancellor
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OpinionEnd divorce marketing puff
I am a card-carrying member of the Co-op. Nevertheless, I cannot be the only one taken aback by its claim over launching its ‘new online divorce service’ (news, 16 January).
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OpinionRed-faced over new job offer
Your recent articles and letters about notifying trainees of whether they will be offered a post with the firm after completing their training contract brings back a memory which, at the time, made me want the earth to swallow me up whole.
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OpinionEndangered lawyers: Closer to home than you think
‘Mounting hostility toward human rights lawyers’ in Northern Ireland threatens to spill over into violence.
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OpinionEndangered lawyers: Poland's creeping coup
Poland has taken a step closer to authoritarianism. Lawyers everywhere should protest.
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OpinionMicrosoft SCOTUS case: UK lawyers take note
As threats to professional secrecy proliferate, solicitors need to hope Microsoft wins.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Best defence
The 4th edition of Anthony Edwards and Roger Ede’s Criminal Defence ’should be a key text for all criminal defence firms.’
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Arms and the mandate
Adrian Lower reviews Katharine Fortin’s The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law.
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OpinionPrice of ambition
Trainee solicitors should not be penalised for looking for jobs elsewhere if their current firm waits until the last minute to offer them a position.
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OpinionDoing our duty on Grenfell
Human rights should be at the heart of the official response to Grenfell.
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OpinionOffice politics
The appointment of a lawyer lord chancellor is welcome, but we must not forget the fact that this high office was imperfectly abolished by Tony Blair, so that our colleague is entitled to wear the robes but has no office. Should this not revive the will of all lawyers (most ...
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OpinionVictor’s justice
On referring to the ‘Nuremberg principles’ under which 12 leading Nazis were sentenced to death, your reviewer (The Internationalists And Their Plan to Outlaw War) failed to mention one glaring weakness: these principles were only applied by judges from the winning side against defendants from the losing side. Not only ...
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OpinionHelp prisoners abroad - from your desk
Could solicitors help the Foreign & Commonwealth Office with its list of English-speaking lawyers?