All articles by Paul Rogerson – Page 17
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NewsNews focus: Post-Beckwith, SRA must focus on 'what matters to clients’
Will the SRA stop insisting 'solicitors are paragons of virtue' in their private lives?
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NewsBeckwith: Solicitors’ sex lives ‘their own business’, says regulation guru
Regulators should not 'hitch themselves to transient public bandwagons', says Solicitor’s Handbook author.
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OpinionIrish eyes not smiling
Few can be surprised the Republic of Ireland appears disinclined to indulge the UK as we skirt the cliff-edge of ‘no deal’.
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OpinionReality checking
The legal profession is no more immune to cognitive dissonance than any other sector.
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OpinionBig game hunting
‘Game-changer’ sprang to mind when Big Four outfit Deloitte announced acquisition of Kemp Little.
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OpinionPretty green
Paul Rogerson You will have noticed something different about the weekly Gazette. I am delighted to confirm that we have made the permanent switch from plastic polywrapping to paper envelopes. Many environmentally aware readers have requested this in recent months and I am delighted to oblige. Studies ...
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OpinionMake the connection
Paul Rogerson Editing the Law Society Gazette, a behemoth among B2B magazines, is a genuine privilege. But it can be exasperating. For as long as I’ve been around, small firms have complained that we write too much about big firms – and vice versa. (And don’t forget ...
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ProfileIn search of a ‘new better’
For David Greene, the Law Society’s new president, the best of times has come at the worst of times. But he is raring to go, hears Paul Rogerson
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OpinionFamily duels
HHJ Stephen Wildblood QC fulminated about extent to which court lists are filled by private law litigation that should not require court involvement.
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OpinionMilitary conflict
Overseas Operations Bill commits government to consider derogating from ECHR before future conflicts – a move which Society condemns.
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OpinionShould we fret about Pret?
Service jobs displaced from city centres may rematerialise in towns from where commuters used to slog in to work - but that is beside the point.
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OpinionLife comes at you faster
As everyday life screeched to a halt, the evolution of the legal profession itself accelerated.
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OpinionReed and learn
It's three years since Lord Reed delivered a devastating rebuke to government in the Supreme Court’s judgment outlawing employment tribunal fees.
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OpinionRemember Brexit?
Chancery Lane is set to open a new front in its campaign by appealing to the EU 27 direct.
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OpinionA ‘new deal’ for housing?
Sunak’s stamp duty holiday is a welcome boost for conveyancing. But for society as a whole it is a distinctly mixed blessing.
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OpinionBack in the (new) routine
Pandemic proves that working outside normal office hours – and outside the office – need not reduce productivity.
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OpinionJury trials: apportioning guilt
As many point out, proposal to abolish jury trials is unintended consequence of avowedly political choices.
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OpinionYou belong in a museum
Is it wise for campaigners to be diverted into a culture war over the fate of embrowned masonry?
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OpinionPublic relations
In the City certain time-honoured traditions are not quite dead – or are at least not dead everywhere.