All Columnist articles – Page 10
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OpinionTearing up the ‘lefty lawyers’ script
The continuing use of the ‘lefty lawyer’ label by the government looks set to become a feature of the long campaign leading to the next election.
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OpinionMother in Law: How to network
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionCan lawyers be utopians?
Sometimes we should spend time considering the eternal and beautiful, and how we should aim to construct a new version of it.
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OpinionNew bill may create hostile environment for media
Is public interest journalism about to be outlawed on national security grounds?
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OpinionFooting the bill for our own values
We need to wean ourselves off the notion that the government is going to continue to pay for everything forever.
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OpinionMother in Law: Stuck in bad habits? Seek out small wins
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionThe climate crisis and the courts
Just as Gandhi was a highly controversial figure in his lifetime, so were the defendants in Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court last week.
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OpinionCalling Putin to account for crime of aggression
A plan to create a new tribunal that would try Russian leaders on allegations of aggression gains traction within the international community.
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OpinionWelcome to the Ministry of High Standards and Professionalism
We must not take what happens – or indeed dies in silence - in our Ministry of Justice as indicative of what happens in the wider world, and certainly not as being normal.
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OpinionDisclosure: dealing with a deluge of data
Data volumes are growing faster than human-only disclosure review teams could possibly keep up with.
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OpinionMother in Law: Being a tough mum
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionThank goodness for immigration lawyers
Part of this article is a call for support for immigration solicitors in the difficult times ahead. The second part is a response to duty.
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OpinionChatGPT: bad jokes, good first drafts
Lawyers must embrace the new artificial intelligence wunderkind.
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OpinionMother in Law: The 10 commandments of LinkedIn
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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OpinionSolicitors need ECHR rights, too
Two solicitors were assassinated in the UK in recent decades, and neither has received the justice that they deserve.
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OpinionPeers pull punches on role of lord chancellor
Lords report was a little more blunt about the attorney general and her colleagues.
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OpinionGet ready for a roller coaster ride in 2023
Costs reform: what changes should lawyers be bracing themselves for?
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OpinionThe impact of EU law on lawyers' fees
Will our current level of consumer rights continue if and when the Retained EU Law Bill becomes an act of parliament?