All articles by Jonathan Goldsmith – Page 5
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OpinionLessons of the CBI scandal
Are our systems robust enough to encourage an environment where people can both work easily with each other and also call out wrong behaviour?
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OpinionWhen BigLaw's mask slips
'Non-negotiable expectations' of how junior lawyers should behave, shared at a US firm's training event, have created an inevitable online storm.
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OpinionLawyers: beware AI’s hallucinations
As chatbots confidently pump out false information, professional bodies should take notice.
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OpinionHere's hoping for a golden age
We can neither look back nor forward to a time when our citizens’ access to dispute resolution and legal transactions can be held out as an ideal model.
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OpinionCool rules for a hot debate
When there is conflict between public interest and the client’s interest, what is the correct balance? The more we argue about this topic, the better.
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OpinionUnworkable bills and the rule of law
What happens when a government passes laws which are not capable of being implemented?
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OpinionTearing up the ‘lefty lawyers’ script
The continuing use of the ‘lefty lawyer’ label by the government looks set to become a feature of the long campaign leading to the next election.
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OpinionCan lawyers be utopians?
Sometimes we should spend time considering the eternal and beautiful, and how we should aim to construct a new version of it.
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OpinionFooting the bill for our own values
We need to wean ourselves off the notion that the government is going to continue to pay for everything forever.
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OpinionThe climate crisis and the courts
Just as Gandhi was a highly controversial figure in his lifetime, so were the defendants in Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court last week.
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OpinionWelcome to the Ministry of High Standards and Professionalism
We must not take what happens – or indeed dies in silence - in our Ministry of Justice as indicative of what happens in the wider world, and certainly not as being normal.
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OpinionThank goodness for immigration lawyers
Part of this article is a call for support for immigration solicitors in the difficult times ahead. The second part is a response to duty.
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OpinionChatGPT: bad jokes, good first drafts
Lawyers must embrace the new artificial intelligence wunderkind.
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OpinionSolicitors need ECHR rights, too
Two solicitors were assassinated in the UK in recent decades, and neither has received the justice that they deserve.
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OpinionThe impact of EU law on lawyers' fees
Will our current level of consumer rights continue if and when the Retained EU Law Bill becomes an act of parliament?
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Opinion'The law is closed!'
We need a new Charles Dickens, to highlight the miseries of our disintegrating systems, and in particular our legal system.
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OpinionEnd-of-year review
From public sector strikes, through to the Russian invasion, climate change, and the death of the Queen, law firms have faced a myriad challenging issues.
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OpinionLegal professional privilege reaffirmed
Court of Justice of the European Union decides interesting case on lawyers' rights.
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OpinionThe SRA and whistleblowing
The regulator has long encouraged whistleblowing. Now it wants to be recognised as an official body to which a whistleblowing disclosure can be made.
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OpinionSolicitors should not police economic crime
A new addition to the public interest objectives is an attempt to advance specific government policy through regulatory manipulation. It must be resisted.