Opinion – Page 307
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Opinion‘Magic pill’ mediation is wrong prescription
Promotion of mediation as a cure-all for family law is misguided. It can never replace the law and the court.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The Scourge of Soho
Some interesting characters pop up in this chronicle of the enclave with a capacity to seduce.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Extradition Law, a practitioner’s guide
Now there is a single ‘must have’ handbook for extradition practitioners.
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Aggression will trump co-operation
In case management the pendulum has swung too far the other way – parties will deliberately make the opponent’s life difficult.
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MoJ disarray
Why not return to the earlier tried and tested system of the police and the courts contacting direct by reference to the national register?
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OpinionVAT and access to justice
A Belgian challenge to paying VAT on legal services reawakens a dormant debate for the whole of Europe.
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OpinionThe labour market isn’t working
Law firms and legal departments that are in a position to be more imaginative when hiring will end up with better people.
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Opinion1215 And All That: a case for exceptionalism
An unashamedly whiggish history of English legal exceptionalism scores a topical point.
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OpinionWhiplash panels won’t change a thing
The same doctors, the same pressures. So what’s different?
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OpinionFunding and ATE: what’s to come in 2014
What developments can we expect in ATE and litigation funding in the coming year?
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OpinionNext steps on legal aid
Independent studies jointly commissioned by the Law Society and Ministry of Justice must form the basis for duty contracts.
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Women judges: inconvenient truth
There has been no significant improvement in the proportion of recommendations of women to any of the court judiciary posts.
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HCtHR: unelected and unaccountable
Human rights court sees itself as an engine of social engineering, but this is properly a matter for elected representatives.