Dr Julian Critchlow
- Opinion
Flexible hours can’t always work
Proposals to increase the diversity of the profession are sometimes incompatible with the day-to-day realities of legal practice
- Opinion
Doctor/lawyer debate
A technical grounding in law is far removed from the theoretical investigation of juridical concepts involved in studying for a doctorate.
- Opinion
Dyson reinvents wheel
Is this not precisely the system we had under the pre-Woolf rules of the Supreme Court?
- Opinion
Law’s monopoly on punishment
If punishment is limited to deterrence, a victim, or victim’s family, may consider that justice has not been done.
- News
SRA doublespeak
I note from your pages that the SRA has a ‘director of inclusion’ (for which post we in the profession presumably pay). It is difficult to imagine a more Orwellian title. I await to hear that we also have a ‘director of truth’ and a ‘director of love’, that doublespeak ...
- News
Earn the title
If Mr Pearlman wishes to be called ‘doctor’, I suggest he studies for a PhD or LLD - quite different animals from the solicitor’s vocational qualification.