Opinion – Page 298
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OpinionLand Registry consultation is a sham
Leaked minutes suggest that some want to steam ahead with ‘privatisation’ before official decisions are taken.
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Pressure cooker of the City
Overexposure to pressurised situations is inherently harmful and City firms should be doing more to ease this burden.
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Property: exchange rate
Exchange of contracts in residential transactions will be made redundant.
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Dependants wrongly assessed
Allowances should be assessed on a monthly, not weekly, basis. Clients could be entitled to legal aid without knowing it.
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Merger lessons
The things I have learnt from a merger may be of interest to smaller firms considering the option.
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Care in client letters
Please include in client care letters confirmation that contact should not be made with the opposite solicitor.
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OpinionBreaking with the past
On separation and divorce, should the law lead public opinion or follow it?
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OpinionJudges: ditching the stereotype
A Labour government would make judicial diversity an urgent policy priority.
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OpinionCan the public learn to love PI lawyers?
Personal injury lawyers are great at telling themselves how worthy they are – now for the outside world.
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OpinionA brave decision, but a dark day for justice
Yesterday’s collapse of a fraud trial for want of defence counsel delivered a grievous blow to our supposedly peerless justice system.
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OpinionEuropean Court of Human Rights and lawyers
A new document should guide lawyers considering ECtHR applications in light of an amended rule of court.
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OpinionJustice and the peace process
The Jean McConville case shows the urgent need for a truth and reconciliation commission for Northern Ireland.
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OpinionBlindness on violence against women
The UK has still to ratify the Convention on Violence against Women.
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OpinionTo stay or not to stay...
How should courts resolve cases hit by the bar’s continued boycott of very high cost cases?
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OpinionThe black must be discharged
Lord Mansfield, the great 18th-century lord chief justice, is an unlikely cinema hero.
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OpinionMitchell: what do the judges make of it?
A senior costs judge points to tensions between procedure and justice.
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Child support after aid cuts
If Simon Hughes wants to put children at the heart of the family court system, he should reverse his government’s demolition of legal aid.
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Civilised society needs solicitors
There remain some who think that the original concept of a solicitor (and a barrister, for that matter) still has a place in our society.
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Law books: words of wisdom
People seem to think if you have written a book on the topic you may well know something about it.