Opinion – Page 44
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OpinionRingmasters in the circus
Solicitors are core to the house-moving process and attuned to the complexities poorly understood by others.
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OpinionSilly money and sensible planning
Planning reforms are essential to fixing the housing crisis. The question is which reforms.
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Criminal cases: losing the true rate
Pay in criminal legal aid is at pre-1970 levels – and the senior judiciary and the bar are complicit in the ruin being visited on solicitor firms.
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COLPs and COFAs – no small matter
The SRA’s plans for compliance officers show the regulator is at odds with itself.
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Earliest call of duty?
Memories of being perhaps the first duty solicitors – and assisting in court at launch of Reading music festival.
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Tax clampdown plan is ‘idiocy’
A new strict liability criminal offence of failing to declare offshore income and gains contravenes most legal principles.
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OpinionManaging the conveyancer shortfall
One legacy of the recession is that there is a shortage of trained conveyancers now times are improving.
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Guideline rates not a straitjacket
Lord Dyson’s decision on guideline hourly rates should be applauded.
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End of life enigma
We seem comfortable with the idea of assisted dying at the beginning of life, but struggle with it for older people.