Opinion – Page 209
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OpinionGlobalisation news for lawyers
As Brexit threatens to damage cross-border legal practices, African societies are trying to form their own unions.
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OpinionA 'friendly' chat with a copper
Solicitors highlight the importance of legal representation when people voluntarily speak to police.
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OpinionThe Trial: the verdict
Channel 4’s docu-drama entertained - but missed opportunities to educate.
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OpinionCharting our rights post-Brexit
The EU is a union of values, as well as a trade and currency bloc. We must not abandon those values.
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OpinionPractice made perfect
A supportive training and learning environment at a law firm is far more beneficial to a prospective solicitor than the LPC.
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Gender and rehabilitation
I agree with J Howard Shelley (letters, 10 April). On prisons and prison policy, it is without question right that gender considerations and concerns must go towards informing the treatment of and efforts to rehabilitate all inmates. That said, it is equally important that it should remain just one of ...
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OpinionShaping up to help members
How the Law Society is adapting its governance to a changing environment.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Legal thickets of localism
What do the following have in common: the Ivy House Pub in Nunhead, south-east London; various football stadiums, including Manchester United’s Old Trafford; Blencathra (the Lake District mountain); and the cold war control tower at the former Greenham Common RAF base (pictured)? Answer: they are all Assets of Community Value ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Great minds who made America
America was founded by commercial lawyers with English ideas of rule of law, free contract and rights of individuals. The early charters in the first half of the 17th century were sometimes far ahead of contemporary legal thinking in establishing rights for women and refugees. Slavery, though, was an issue ...
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OpinionCosts budgeting: an invitation to play the system?
Kennedys was caught out for submitting an under-estimate, but plenty more do the same.
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OpinionTories' land data body sounds excellent. But...
A cadastral agency is a very non-conservative - indeed Napoleonic - concept.
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OpinionAn ambitious Brexit agenda for lawyers
Our practice rights will be critical in Brexit negotiations - but what about the rights of EU lawyers working here?
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Standards downgrade
The criminal standard of proof in disciplinary proceedings is needed to hold regulators to account for the quality of their investigations
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: A handy signpost
This book deals with the practicalities of rights over land and public control of land.