All Euro blog articles – Page 10
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Opinion
In-house lawyers – a paradox
Countries across the EU treat in-house lawyers differently. Why?
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We can’t go on as we are
Regulate the unregulated and ride the technological wave – or clients will suffer.
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Grayling can’t stop all the data
Despite Chris Grayling’s best efforts to withhold details, it is still possible to compare the UK’s justice system with others in Europe.
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Business, human rights – and meaning
Draft IBA guidance on human rights poses many questions for lawyers.
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Money laundering: thank you, Canada
If only Europe would share Canada’s view that money laundering obligations are inconsistent with efforts to maintain lawyer-client confidentiality.
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One justice system for all?
We must not repeat the mistakes of the past if aid is to be spent effectively on justice systems in developing countries.
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EU-US legal services breakthrough
Conference of chief justices offers a way out of the old plot-line.
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Endangered lawyers
As the legal revolution progresses, the danger is that the weakest and most abused clients will be pushed to the margins.
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Lawyer surveillance after Charlie Hebdo
Lawyer-client confidentiality could come under renewed threat following the recent terrorist attacks.
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The LSB: stuck in 2007
There is a worrying lack of focus on the public interest in the board’s latest draft strategic plan, which seems mired in a carefree past.
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Lawyers and immigration
Lawyers have a crucial role to play in upholding migrants’ rights and dignity.
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Imagining the future of legal services
The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Commission on the Future of Legal Services has issued its opening salvo.
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Two European cases of interest
Spain was unhappy that all future unitary patents must be submitted only in languages allowed by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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European court problems
Now is the time to solve the intractable resourcing issues at the EU General Court.
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GCHQ – lawyers’ dilemma
Does the battle against terrorism mean that we should accept some interception of lawyer-client messages?
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Some important IBA products
Significant documents came out of the recent conference in Tokyo.
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What is a lawyer?
The boundary between being a lawyer and non-lawyer is becoming blurred – but we still have one thing to hold on to.
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A new EU term begins
After the protracted handover of European commissions, there is much to keep lawyers occupied.
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Shakespeare and lawyers
We should stop obsessing over one of the playwright’s most famous lines. It was just a joke.