All articles by Jonathan Goldsmith – Page 19
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OpinionLawyers and tax avoidance – beware future dangers
Lawyers need to be careful when the special rules they claim permit too many exemptions from socially useful legislation.
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OpinionChanging the record
Regulators should drop their obsession with ownership and focus on more urgent matters.
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OpinionGlobal challenges in Brexit times
The same urgent topics are preoccupying major bars and law societies across the world.
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OpinionTime for a global regulatory treasury
We need a regulatory information resource for lawyer disciplinary records worldwide.
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OpinionGlobalisation news for lawyers
As Brexit threatens to damage cross-border legal practices, African societies are trying to form their own unions.
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OpinionCharting our rights post-Brexit
The EU is a union of values, as well as a trade and currency bloc. We must not abandon those values.
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OpinionAn ambitious Brexit agenda for lawyers
Our practice rights will be critical in Brexit negotiations - but what about the rights of EU lawyers working here?
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OpinionBorder searches of your electronic devices
Lawyers need to be prepared when the authorities demand to search their laptops and mobile phones.
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OpinionA win for lawyers in Strasbourg
A German criminal lawyer has won a great victory for lawyer-client confidentiality in the ECtHR.
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OpinionGlobalisation - a serious gap in the law
Monsanto Tribunal is one manifestation of a growing gap between international human rights law and corporate accountability.
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OpinionEU agencies post-Brexit
Lawyers deal with over 40 EU agencies in the course of their client work. What will they do post-Brexit?
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OpinionWe will remain a people business
The ‘made-by-humans’ label will continue to be popular and necessary in the law, whatever artificial intelligence achieves.
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OpinionNew human rights register launched
In April 2015, the president of Belarus gave effect to a law which imposes fines and imprisonment for those who are unemployed.
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OpinionBrexit: Summoning the collective will
In civil and criminal justice, there are clear benefits to maintaining close cooperation with the EU.
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OpinionWhistleblowing and lawyers
A European Commission consultation on whistleblower protection raises important questions of legal professional privilege.
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OpinionLawyers and the assault on truth
The part played by lawyers in long-trusted methods of arriving at the truth needs to be publicly reinforced in a convention.
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OpinionA legal lacuna in hard Brexit
Even ‘Pitchfork’ Theresa wants more cooperation with the EU on criminal justice – and Brussels is busy.
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OpinionEuropean bar news update
Jurisdictions attending the annual meeting of European bar presidents report on developments from money laundering sanctions to the refugee crisis.