All Euro blog articles – Page 12
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Opinion
Business, human rights and lawyers
Everyone wants to be friends with CSR. But how do its principles conflict with lawyer-client confidentiality?
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European Court of Human Rights and lawyers
A new document should guide lawyers considering ECtHR applications in light of an amended rule of court.
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PII – a flawed framework
Problems in the cross-border insurance market will continue as long as member states’ legal systems differ.
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A pitch for a TV series on the law
Our legal system is one of the country’s great exports. Surely it should get its own TV series?
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A blow against the security state
The annulment of an EU data retention directive has implications for the government – and lawyers.
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European law a click away
The e-justice portal gives access to EU case law databases. But the UK won’t adopt a new identifier tool.
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Chris Grayling, scourge of the EU
It is strange that the justice secretary reserves his full Eurosceptic wrath for the innocuous EU justice scoreboard.
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EU: end-of-term fever
Many reforms rushed through the expiring European parliament will be of great interest to lawyers.
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PII in a European setting
What light does a new report shed on the availability of cross-border insurance products?
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Who can act in European patents?
Quality control issues arise over the right of representation in the Unified Patent Court.
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Cybersecurity – an urgent priority
The latest Snowden revelations should make law firms think seriously about data protection.
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The human right to be a lawyer
A recent ECtHR ruling over conditions for access has resonance for all bars in Europe.
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IT can’t do it all
Technology is changing the way we work. But there are certain things only lawyers can do.
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Alarming lessons from the US
Legal education needs to prepare tomorrow’s lawyers for the automated world in which they will be operating.
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VAT and access to justice
A Belgian challenge to paying VAT on legal services reawakens a dormant debate for the whole of Europe.
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Finland goes its own way
On legal aid and regulation, the country is travelling in a different direction to much of Europe.
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Solicitors and the First World War
In this centenary year, how will we commemorate lawyers who perished in the Great War?
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Grayling’s Christmas Carol
The justice secretary plays Scrooge in a distinctly modern version of Dickens’ tale.
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Lawyers and lobbying
So far, lawyers have not fared well in the discourse over transparency in a lobbying bill.