Dr Julian Critchlow

  • Letters
    Opinion

    ​Flexible hours can’t always work

    13 November 2017

    Proposals to increase the diversity of the profession are sometimes incompatible with the day-to-day realities of legal practice

  • Opinion

    Doctor/lawyer debate

    4 April 2016

    A technical grounding in law is far removed from the theoretical investigation of juridical concepts involved in studying for a doctorate.

  • Opinion

    Legal entry point

    7 March 2016

    Why should we ease the path of aspirants to the profession at any cost?

  • Opinion

    Dyson reinvents wheel

    4 May 2015

    Is this not precisely the system we had under the pre-Woolf rules of the Supreme Court?

  • Opinion

    Law’s monopoly on punishment

    9 March 2015

    If punishment is limited to deterrence, a victim, or victim’s family, may consider that justice has not been done.

  • Opinion

    ‘Equal merit’ bid misguided

    16 June 2014

    The profession should reject discrimination of any kind.

  • News

    SRA doublespeak

    2012-10-11T00:00:00

    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

    2012-01-26T00:00:00

    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.