Opinion – Page 30
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EU takes liberty with our rights
Lawyers should vote to leave the EU – an institution based on jurisdictional principles at odds with the liberties of English people.
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Brexit: protect our legal tradition
Continued membership of the EU necessarily dilutes our legal system and thus our autonomy.
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Bar dissenter
We do not share the opinion that solicitors repeatedly ‘provide poor-quality work and fail to deliver the appropriate level of care’.
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Do not assume women lawyers want partnership
Nowhere does the SRA survey ask: are you happy with your position within the firm?
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OpinionLegal aid: squeezed middle
The rich can pay, the poor invade the courts and middle-earners lose out altogether. What can be done about ‘partial law’?
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Where are the role models?
I would have a go at those successful women who have pulled up the ladder behind them.
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Judgment day
Low-level number of judgments against businesses probably down to 600% or so increase in up-front court fees.
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Showcasing law firms
Accreditation has served us well. A scheme for general practice would help showcase those firms which offer advice on a range of subjects.
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General counsel: not just The Godfather
But in the FTSE 250 only 23 companies have a lawyer on their boards.
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Racing cert
Like James Morton, I am an admirer of the former solicitor Victor Morley Lawson.
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Children Act: term time
I was always impressed by those who insisted on using the old terminology of custody and access abolished by the 1989 act.
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Hillsborough: a logical verdict
Police match commander conceded to Paul Greaney QC that his failure to close tunnel entrance was direct cause of deaths.
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‘Obfuscation’ on race profile
The fact that Government Legal Service lawyers should obfuscate in replying to awkward questions they are required to reply to under the FoI Act is worrying.
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Democratic deficit
It is time for a radical rethink if the Law Society is going to have any hope of retaining its present role as defender of the faith of the profession.
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Check out the fraud T&Cs
What is the legal community doing to protect home buyers and sellers?
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Failing the vulnerable
Our conduct of care proceedings involving the children of vulnerable young mothers is not working – the time has come for a review.
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OpinionWary of ‘modest’ IT proposal for justice
Justice should be universal and blind to the imperfections of those seeking it.