Opinion – Page 209
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OpinionWanted: a first-class lawyer
The next lord chancellor should be drawn from the most senior ranks of the judiciary and Queens Counsel.
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OpinionChanging of the guard
The outcome of the election should usher in a new lord chancellor – and spark a shakeup in the judiciary.
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Climate Trumpery is not the end of the world
Lawyers have a role in combatting the harm done by climate change, but perhaps not the one you think.
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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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