Opinion – Page 287
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Vexatious Litigants and Civil Restraint Orders
The authors are trailblazers, giving solid guidance on dealing with vexatious litigants in person.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Legal Research: a practitioner’s handbook
In the electronic age, what does the future look like for legal research?
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Criminal cases: losing the true rate
Pay in criminal legal aid is at pre-1970 levels – and the senior judiciary and the bar are complicit in the ruin being visited on solicitor firms.
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COLPs and COFAs – no small matter
The SRA’s plans for compliance officers show the regulator is at odds with itself.
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OpinionImportant changes in law
What were the most important legal developments of the past 30 years?
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OpinionScotland: breaking new ground
Independence or further devolution would have legal consequences for England and Wales.
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OpinionBad parents in authority
Councils are flouting the law by failing looked-after children and young people in care.
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OpinionDon’t fall behind in Latin America
Too often UK law firms leave Latin American work to Spanish and US firms – they should be more confident.
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OpinionDealing with the incompetent
Did downsizing during the recession leave many firms short of competent lawyers?
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OpinionCourts, TV and Twitter – the perfect combination?
Electronic media will change courtroom behaviour, but not necessarily in the way most people assume.
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OpinionConsiderations on GHRs
A look at other jurisdictions tells us that we must take a granular and nuanced approach to pricing legal work.
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Earliest call of duty?
Memories of being perhaps the first duty solicitors – and assisting in court at launch of Reading music festival.
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Tax clampdown plan is ‘idiocy’
A new strict liability criminal offence of failing to declare offshore income and gains contravenes most legal principles.
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OpinionSome corner of a foreign field
The Ypres grave of articled clerk Cyril Montagu Pope is worth visiting.