Your Letters – Page 50
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Keep taking the medicine
I am aware that the government is keen to encourage those who are in dispute to mediate and resolve their difficulties without going to court.
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Bar plays by different rules
Members of the profession may not know that they can be out of pocket paying counsel’s fees when the court has determined that those fees are unreasonable.
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Regulations give guidance on third-party libels
MoJ publication on user-generated content gives lawyers a much clearer idea of where they stand.
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Complicated conveyancing
Why has the relatively simple act of buying and selling a house seemingly become so complicated?
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Gender-exclusive address
It is ridiculous it is in this day and age to address another firm as ‘Dear Sirs’ when probably more than half the lawyers in that firm are female.
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In our hours of need
Firms must give employees genuine mastery over their working hours to build a meaningful work-life balance.
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Valuing mediation
If more solicitors took the trouble to properly understand mediation, their clients would value them for it.
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Court support
If an experienced solicitor, legal executive or paralegal takes the view that the client has capacity, then the High Court should be supporting us.
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In-house plea
I appreciate that your recent articles on mediation were about family mediation, but they inadvertently appear to cast a gloomy light over commercial mediation, which is actually going from strength to strength. This is due to extraordinary success rates – 90% of all UK commercial cases settle on the day ...
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Ensuring staff wellbeing is a commercial necessity
A health and wellbeing strategy can bring benefits commercially, too.
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Pawns in the migration game
In July the Home Office introduced a seemingly innocuous phrase into the immigration rules and international students will suffer.
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No glory in train robbery
Am I alone in being offended by the tone of the piece by James Morton in the 12 August edition?
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Baffled by SRA enigma
We need a password to fill in an SRA form. The SRA has not provided the password.
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Arbitrate to uphold justice
If parties choose to arbitrate rather than litigate their dispute, route to justice will be improved.
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Wills: bronze rule
We cannot see why it seems to be assumed by the judiciary that a doctor’s ability to judge mental capacity is greater than that of a solicitor.
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‘Golden rule’ of wills
Even experienced solicitors must take instructions with real care to ensure the validity of a will when capacity issues are involved.
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No high-value exceptions
The debate around the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) consultation to extend the mandatory costs budgeting regime to include commercial cases over the value of £2m has largely been one-sided.
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Over-regulation
I fully empathise with A M Robinson’s rant on the minutiae of our profession’s bureaucratic regulation (letters, 29 July).