All Columnist articles – Page 19
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Opinion
Mother in law: Tips for billing well
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Opinion
Global Britain – the ups and downs for lawyers
'Global Britain' means two things: the outward story of our lawyers being able to practise in other countries, and the inward position covering other countries' use of our domestic legal services.
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Opinion
Why our AML regime needs a radical overhaul
We need to be bold - consider the French bar’s solution, under which lawyers are not allowed to hold clients’ money.
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Opinion
Mother in law: Passive aggression in the workplace
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Opinion
Should governments be trammelled or untrammelled?
Electorates, being human, can make mistakes. Governments can, too.
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Opinion
A constitutional ‘linchpin’ that came loose
Some 15 years after it was brought into force, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 is now up for grabs.
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Opinion
We don’t have to be Eeyores about our future
The future of the legal profession may not be as gloomy as some doomsayers predict.
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Opinion
Time to update ‘Dickensian’ county courts
Among lawyers who deal with the county courts, recent comments by master of the rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos raised eyebrows.
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Opinion
Mother in law: My rough guide to how much you should be earning
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Opinion
Should regulation toughen us up or protect the client?
A Legal Services Board report raises an interesting question for all lawyers.
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Opinion
Justice is not about victims versus offenders
Andy Burnham’s prescription for a criminal justice shakeup is well-intentioned but mostly wrong-headed.
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Opinion
Should our law firms still represent the Belarus government?
You can tell the nature of a country from the way it treats its lawyers.
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Opinion
Mother in law: A miscarriage of justice
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Opinion
A SLAPP in the face for free speech
The Queen’s speech announced the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which will seek to strengthen academic freedom and free speech in universities in England.
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Opinion
Will lawyer nomads become a thing?
Nomads are seen by some as primitive people, escaping the restrictions and benefits of settled society.
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Opinion
Government’s curious balancing act
Legislation will be introduced, the Queen said last week, to ‘restore the balance of power between the executive, legislature and the courts’.
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Opinion
Mother in law: The physical toll of stress
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Opinion
No, lawyers are not like hitmen
The fact that lawyer abuse is now happening on such a regular basis is a failure internationally of our professional bodies.
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Opinion
Personal injury reform – a pain in the neck?
At the end of this month the ‘Official Injury Claim’ portal for low-value road traffic accident claims finally goes live.