Opinion – Page 14

  • Letters
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    Overcharged clients

    22 January 2018

    Mark Carlisle defends the role of costs recovery firms.

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    Office politics

    22 January 2018

    The appointment of a lawyer lord chancellor is welcome, but we must not forget the fact that this high office was imperfectly abolished by Tony Blair, so that our colleague is entitled to wear the robes but has no office. Should this not revive the will of all lawyers (most ...

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    Victor’s justice

    22 January 2018

    On referring to the ‘Nuremberg principles’ under which 12 leading Nazis were sentenced to death, your reviewer (The Internationalists And Their Plan to Outlaw War) failed to mention one glaring weakness: these principles were only applied by judges from the winning side against defendants from the losing side. Not only ...

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    Worboys: searching questions

    15 January 2018

    For the Parole Board to have its vital independence of decision-making diluted would be bad news for our handling of offender rehabilitation.

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    Breaking point

    15 January 2018

    I am sure that John Greenwood (Gazette, 20 November) is by no means the only solicitor to have suffered at the hands of a disappointed opponent. While still an articled clerk, my firm’s office was almost burnt to the ground by an arsonist whose wife we were acting for. Apparently, ...

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    Stay lucky

    15 January 2018

    A dignitary interviewed on the radio the other day was asked what had been the most important factor in his life – the answer was luck. Looking back on a long legal career, I realise how vital this was. I was lucky after National Service, knowing virtually nothing about the ...

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    ​Spectre of discrimination

    8 January 2018

    Legal aid quango seems to have decided that some sections of the profession, although qualified, cannot undertake work in criminal law

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    Land consent problem solved

    8 January 2018

    I had a similar query to R.M. Napier (‘Land consent conundrum’, letters, 4 December) in ascertaining how to approach a covenant restrictive of the user of a property that I was purchasing for a client.I accordingly searched online for ‘release of restrictive covenant HMLR’ and, lo and behold, a Land ...

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    ​Court is no laughing matter

    8 January 2018

    While it is always dangerous to underestimate how seriously a court may view your case, it can be equally risky to make a joke, however well-intentioned.

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    ​Right Ho, and much obliged

    8 January 2018

    I have just read the 4 December Obiter. Parodying Wodehouse is notoriously difficult, but this has been written with considerable skill, knowledge of the master (and the subject in question) and with great elegance. And throwing in a P.C. Wren reference is the cherry on the top. Many congratulations to ...

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    Fighting for trans rights

    4 December 2017

    The transphobic agenda of many in the media is impeding our attempts to raise awareness and gain basic rights for the trans community.

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    Technology is no silver bullet

    4 December 2017

    Technology was, is and must always remain a tool leading to effective and better delivery of justice, rather than some panacea. 

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    Land consent conundrum

    4 December 2017

    Registry response to question of neighbouring owner’s consent to restricted land is unhelpful.

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    ​Power in the Union

    27 November 2017

    International organisations are important conduits for the exchange of knowledge – your letters to the editor of the Gazette

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    Cocktail of muddle and delay

    27 November 2017

    Having practised in residential conveyancing for most of my working life, I was recently reminded of just how bad things have become.

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    Righting wrongs

    27 November 2017

    Your 12 November article on bullying in the courtroom is a timely reminder of certain practices that have absolutely no place in our judicial system. But may I raise just one note of caution.

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    It’s a dog’s life

    27 November 2017

    There seems to be an increasing trend to take your pooch to the office. Indeed, one firm boasts as many as three office dogs on its website.

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    No complaints

    27 November 2017

    With regard to the SRA register of disciplinary sanctions, perhaps the regulator would also open a register of all our (very justified) criticisms of its operation.

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    Budget 2017: as you were?

    27 November 2017

    Last week’s budget offered little to lawyers and certainly failed to encourage investment in people.

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    A private function

    20 November 2017

    To deny the seriously injured the right to choose private treatment would grossly undermine the most important aim of compensation