Opinion – Page 280
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OpinionTinker, tailor, soldier... solicitor
Students can benefit from a carefully planned career path. But what advice is given to them about their studies?
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OpinionDo barristers and mediation mix?
Some barristers risk perpetuating adversarial stereotypes. But there is still a place for counsel in the mediation process.
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OpinionContempt of court laws are dated
It’s time to update contempt of court laws in the digital age – but I can’t sympathise with Rebekah Brooks.
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Big opportunity for small firms
Aspiring solicitors could fulfil their training requirements through a database of practitioners with the necessary specialist disciplines.
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PII email order
The tone of a recent email about PII renewal - our firm had in fact renewed - was rude and aggressive.
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OpinionLawyers: no half-secrets
The erosion of professional secrecy ‘for the public good’ bodes ill for lawyers.
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Entry level – conveyancing enquiries
Unnecessary pre-contract enquiries were happening 60 years ago.
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OpinionTransatlantic trade deal: myths versus reality
Even though some reservations about the EU-US free trade deal are misguided, issues they raise are important.
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OpinionTransatlantic trade deal: a tipping point?
The legal profession has an opportunity to ensure the deal supports access to justice.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Foul Play
An inescapable feeling of being trapped pervades the opener in the DI Ambrose mysteries.
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OpinionMax Clifford: silence is golden
Should lawyers be alarmed by a new sentencing principle established in the Max Clifford case?
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Poison Pen
The idea of police as a fount of law and order is overturned in this second instalment.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Close Disharmony
With much more tension and characterisation than the previous two works, this is the best Ambrose mystery yet.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: A Short Book of Bad Judges
Allow yourself a wry smile at this marvellous and concise book.
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OpinionTwo European cases of interest
Spain was unhappy that all future unitary patents must be submitted only in languages allowed by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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OpinionNumber-crunchers nail ‘fat-cat lawyer’ myth
What does a ‘typical’ solicitor earn? Less than politicians with an axe to grind would have you believe.
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OpinionWrong time to put justice above politics
Two distinguished legal commentators call for a royal commission on the penal system. That’s unlikely to happen.
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OpinionInnovation – taking colleagues with you
How do you keep the lifeblood of our profession engaged when you are constantly asking them to challenge the way they have done things for many years?