Opinion – Page 50

  • Opinion

    LPC reality

    20 January 2014

    There is a staggering oversupply of aspiring lawyers.

  • Opinion

    Are origin investigations money well spent?

    20 January 2014

    The clue to my ethnic origin is in the name.

  • Opinion

    Case management conundrum

    13 January 2014

    Woolf aimed to transfer case management into the hands of the court – an ‘unless’ order is an inadequate remedy.

  • Opinion

    Mitchell moaners

    13 January 2014

    I trust that the whingers will come to understand that what they wrongly perceive as manifest injustice will spawn a whole new industry of professional negligence lawyers.

  • Opinion

    Claimant rights

    13 January 2014

    I sympathise with the solicitors in Mitchell. But how will individual claimants suffer?

  • Opinion

    Frontline facts

    13 January 2014

    Stop ransferring consequences to those practising on the frontline.

  • Opinion

    Apple exemplar

    13 January 2014

    Lawyers should be looking to serve clients first – profits will follow.

  • Opinion

    Costly outcome

    13 January 2014

    Litigators have no realistic alternative to seeking prospective budget variations once the budget is in danger of being exceeded.

  • Opinion

    Grammar gaffes

    13 January 2014

    It is good to know that our profession upholds its standards through quality assurance measures.

  • Opinion

    Local language

    13 January 2014

    The Ministry of Justice set-up using just one language provider is not working.

  • Opinion

    Mitchell: costs bombshell

    9 December 2013

    The Mitchell decision will be catastrophic for lawyers working in civil litigation – my firm will have to reassess its future.

  • Opinion

    Claimants will suffer

    9 December 2013

    The real issues from Mitchell are whether the sanction was proportionate and whether it is right for the court to adjudge that justice in the individual case should take second place to compliance with the rules.

  • Opinion

    Misunderstood Society

    9 December 2013

    James Parry has misunderstood what has been agreed between the Law Society and the Ministry of Justice, and has also misunderstood the relationship between the Society and its members.

  • Opinion

    Legal aid: no defence

    9 December 2013

    It is nonsense to suggest that we should be content with the ‘best of a bad job’.

  • Opinion

    Solicitor pay dismay

    9 December 2013

    The recent How To article may have been helpful to law firm owners but it is likely to have been viewed with dismay by some solicitors.

  • Opinion

    Bad manners in law

    9 December 2013

    I am astounded by the lack of manners shown by many in the legal profession. 

  • Nigel Spencer
    Opinion

    Conveyancing made simple

    9 December 2013

    Chancery Lane’s new portal will help firms manage risk, cut costs and serve clients.

  • Opinion

    Legal aid: what’s your alternative?

    2 December 2013

    Chancery Lane is right to want to engage with the government rather than man the barricades and scream defiance.

  • Opinion

    Law Society is out of touch

    2 December 2013

    What most solicitors do not get is why the Society is so chummy with Grayling.

  • Opinion

    Leadership have done their best

    25 November 2013

    Chancery Lane’s leaders have made the best of a bad job on criminal legal aid, however unpalatable that may be.