Opinion – Page 37

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    Separate ways

    1 June 2015

    Perhaps the Law Society can be encouraged to create a separate lender representation protocol?

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    Will Aid promotion

    1 June 2015

    Solicitors who sign up to the scheme find that our nationwide publicity drives new clients through their doors.

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    Training wreck

    1 June 2015

    Law firms need to invest more in trainees.

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    Cab rank myth

    1 June 2015

    I have yet to meet a solicitor who believes barristers must take on any case.

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    Legal advice for all

    18 May 2015

    We need to be more imaginative in providing legal advice for people with no money, by working together with help from law firms.

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    National strategy needed

    18 May 2015

    Citizens Advice is not looking at a national programme to charge for advice.

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    Loss of faith in solicitors

    18 May 2015

    I write to highlight a worrying decline in the status of solicitors in our society.

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    Assessing fitness to stand trial

    11 May 2015

    Surely the business of unfit to stand trial proceeds thus.

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    Partnership vanity trap

    11 May 2015

    The traditional collegiate partnership model is deeply flawed.

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    TTIP balance

    11 May 2015

    David Rivkin disingenuous over trade-deal worries.

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    Our fundamental rights

    4 May 2015

    There are certain principles which we believe govern civilised states – the Human Rights Act is a necessary protection for these ideals.

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    Gulf legal stream

    4 May 2015

    The Gulf region will become a significant area of opportunity for the provision of UK legal services and training.

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    Dyson reinvents wheel

    4 May 2015

    Is this not precisely the system we had under the pre-Woolf rules of the Supreme Court?

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    It’s all about in-house

    27 April 2015

    In a client-led legal services market, in-house lawyers are more than holding their own – it’s time we saw a bit of swagger.

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    Facebook first in England

    27 April 2015

    I obtained court permission in England to allow service of financial remedy proceedings via Facebook.

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    Privilege stance

    27 April 2015

    It is wrong to suggest the Serious Fraud Office is trying to have its cake and eat it.

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    Leading the way

    27 April 2015

    The procedural requirements of scrutiny and weakness in compliance both sit together in the awkward space of not just process but people leadership.

  • Opinion

    Justice lies in ruins

    20 April 2015

    The coalition government has done great harm to access to justice, the courts and to practitioners – the charge sheet is shocking.

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    Not forgetting Ukip

    20 April 2015

    Where were Ukip in your feature on solicitor candidates for the main parties in the general election?

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    Memories are the gift of age

    20 April 2015

    It is a good thing to remember old Gazette articles.