Your Letters – Page 25

  • Opinion

    Racing cert

    16 May 2016

    Like James Morton, I am an admirer of the former solicitor Victor Morley Lawson.

  • Opinion

    Children Act: term time

    16 May 2016

    I was always impressed by those who insisted on using the old terminology of custody and access abolished by the 1989 act.

  • Opinion

    Hillsborough: a logical verdict

    9 May 2016

    Police match commander conceded to Paul Greaney QC that his failure to close tunnel entrance was direct cause of deaths.

  • Opinion

    ‘Obfuscation’ on race profile

    9 May 2016

    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.

  • Opinion

    Democratic deficit

    9 May 2016

    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.

  • Opinion

    Check out the fraud T&Cs

    9 May 2016

    What is the legal community doing to protect home buyers and sellers?

  • Opinion

    Failing the vulnerable

    2 May 2016

    Our conduct of care proceedings involving the children of vulnerable young mothers is not working – the time has come for a review.

  • Lord Justice Briggs
    Opinion

    Wary of ‘modest’ IT proposal for justice

    2 May 2016

    Justice should be universal and blind to the imperfections of those seeking it.

  • Opinion

    Compensation culture: blame game

    2 May 2016

    Someone or something is encouraging the ‘blame and complain’ culture.

  • Opinion

    No degree? No matter

    2 May 2016

    I never felt at any disadvantage without a university degree.

  • Opinion

    Guilty of what?

    2 May 2016

    The reality on the ground is of a threatened rush to judgment driving all before it.

  • Opinion

    ‘Doctor’ title vote

    2 May 2016

    Let’s put the doctor question to a vote. That seems the obvious way to determine whether it is wanted by our members.

  • Opinion

    Equal charges

    2 May 2016

    For some reason our professional colleagues feel that they should be paid ‘50% by the applicant and the balance by the respondent’.

  • Opinion

    Interpreting: language problem

    25 April 2016

    In retendering for court interpreter provision, the Ministry of Justice appears intent on foisting inferior services upon us once again.

  • Opinion

    Tome trauma

    25 April 2016

    The SRA handbook: what a fabulously useful expenditure of energy.

  • Opinion

    A-level headed

    25 April 2016

    I have to wonder why trainee solicitors have incurred such enormous debt.

  • Opinion

    Damning verdict

    18 April 2016

    Lord Hutchinson is right to vent his spleen about the state of our legal system – governments have shown a lack of respect for the law.

  • Opinion

    Defence of the defence

    18 April 2016

    Tony Fisher rightly highlighted the need for the debate about independent regulation to take account of our obligation to protect the rights of lawyers to challenge the state, and to protect human rights both in our own country and internationally.

  • Opinion

    Pet project

    18 April 2016

    Any time soon I expect a ‘veterinary summit’.

  • Opinion

    Safeguards on sentencing

    11 April 2016

    Moves to cut credit for ‘late’ guilty pleas even further pose a threat to fundamental principles of justice. We should be worried.