Opinion – Page 261
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OpinionCourting unpopularity
The government must not be too dismissive in its responses to consultations.
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OpinionRating lawyers online
Web platforms allowing clients to review legal services raise difficult issues. How should they work?
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OpinionAbuse inquiry: breaking with tradition
Much is expected from the largest and most ambitious public inquiry ever established.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Complaints Handling Toolkit
A book - and accompanying CD-ROM - that makes practitioners rethink complaints procedure and in-house training.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The Fortunes of Francis Barber
An excellent book that delves deep into Samuel Johnson’s motivations for employing and helping the Jamaican.
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Prince Charles judgment call
Lord Wilson’s dissenting opinion in the Prince of Wales case deserves the plaudits given to Lord Atkin pertaining to democratic accountability.
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Digging deep for McKenzie friends
It is a scandal that litigants who are frequently very vulnerable can be persuaded to part with large sums of money for unqualified ‘friends’.
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Personal touch from lawyers is neglected
Many solicitors, after practising too many years, forget when dealing with other people on a personal level to be people.
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Support the many or few?
Those remaining in the courts need encouragement that pressures on them will not increase.
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OpinionNo panacea on regulation
A consensus is lacking on reform, the lord chancellor will discover.
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OpinionLondon must build on its lead
The new Financial List is a fillip for the capital but the initiative could go further.
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OpinionAustralia’s veil of secrecy
The effect of the Border Force Act is to throw a veil of secrecy over what is happening in Australia’s immigration detention system.
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OpinionTaking Iran seriously
The end of sanctions creates big opportunities for law firms with local knowledge.
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Sexist attitudes belong in the past
Women - including women lawyers - who have children are not ‘indulging their hobby’.
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A sense of history over rule of law
Attacks on due process re-emerge and our vigilance is essential.
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OpinionPower and accountability
What a shame Theresa May did not see a new play highlighting the thesis that ‘parliamentary democracy trumps all’.
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OpinionThinking outside the box
Putting a defendant in a dock risks infringing the presumption of innocence.