All Leader articles

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Light relief?

    2025-03-25T15:59:00Z

    What would a ‘light-touch’ approach to litigation funding regulation look like?

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Glass houses

    2025-03-14T11:57:00Z

    Last week I noted that the Law Society’s benchmarking survey was awkwardly timed, finding as it did that client interest is turbocharging practice profits.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    No more ‘free money’?

    2025-03-12T10:46:00Z

    Might the prospect of tipping dozens of law firms into financial trouble deter the SRA from imposing a ban on pocketing interest on client money?

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Money isn’t everything

    2025-03-04T13:56:00Z

    District judges earn £134,000 a year, more than 3.5 times the average UK salary for full-time employees. Is it enough?

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Body slam

    2025-02-27T12:57:00Z

    Law Society’s withering response to the SRA’s client money consultation not only crosses the Rubicon, but burns the bridge as it proceeds.

  • Michael Cross
    Opinion

    Groundhog day

    2025-02-14T13:10:00Z

    Have we finally cracked e-conveyancing?

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Three’s no crowd

    2025-02-07T13:16:00Z

    Gateley, Knights and Keystone Law are the only standalone law firm businesses with a stockmarket listing.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Silks cut

    2025-02-04T11:27:00Z

    Just one solicitor has been appointed in each of the last three silk rounds. Fewer solicitors are applying, too. Why?

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    In the national interest

    2025-01-29T15:08:00Z

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves summoned a phalanx of industry regulators to lecture them on the need to ‘tear down the barriers’. Legal watchdogs appear to have received a pass.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    A theory of rights

    17 January 2025

    Labour claims new rights will be transformative for workers and private renters.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Breaking with the past

    2025-01-16T15:40:00Z

    What might the profession see in the coming decade? 

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Exit signs

    6 December 2024

    On Human Rights Day, I fear that Labour’s general election victory may have bred complacency over the UK’s continuing membership of the European Court.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Conduct unbecoming

    2024-12-05T11:29:00Z

    Parliamentary group's scathing report describes the Financial Conduct Authority as ‘incompetent at best and dishonest at worst’.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Bar rebels on EDI duty

    2024-11-25T11:02:00Z

    The Bar Council has rubbished plans to impose a positive duty to promote equality in the profession. Will the regulator back down?

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Bulldog spirit

    2024-11-13T16:19:00Z

    Does the storied demise of Axiom Ince sound the death knell for the client account?

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    A regulator in denial

    2024-11-06T16:33:00Z

    The SRA provided a bellicose response to last week’s lacerating Axiom Ince report.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Story of the stats

    2024-10-31T10:44:00Z

    PwC’s latest top-100 survey is well worth a few minutes of your time.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Fooled again?

    2024-10-24T13:48:00Z

    As Labour marks 100 days in government, a non-exhaustive list of issues that demand resolution.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Casual redress

    2024-10-04T09:50:00Z

    Where the state and its agents are culpable for avoidable tragedies, ad hoc compensation schemes are not the answer.

  • Paul Rogerson
    Opinion

    Staying the course

    2024-10-02T15:40:00Z

    Anna Bradley has been reappointed as SRA chair for another two years, after the regulator called off its search to fill the post.