All Letters articles – Page 27
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Opinion
Lloyd George pilgrimage
Museum to Britain’s first solicitor prime minister is an edifying experience – the profession should pull out the stops to keep it open.
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Lawyers should be ‘doctors’ too
Maybe we should follow dentists and adopt the more respected ‘dr’ title.
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Mortgage alert
Imagine the problems if the usual undertaking to discharge the mortgage had been given pre-completion and the bank then raised these pre-conditions to a discharge.
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A matter of public interest
The AG is a lawyer and therefore independent, in theory, but he is also a member of Cabinet and open to accusations of ostensible bias.
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Legal email fail
It would be nice to think that the law as a profession was at the cutting edge of technology.
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End the revolving door of prison
Incarceration still plays a disproportionate and counterproductive role in our approach to criminal offending.
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Hard times
Starving articled clerks, armed with three or four affidavits, could afford lunch.
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Classical turn
Alice Cooper also features in the most august of classical music periodicals.
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OpinionCity lawyers' fees: free-market reality
The billable-hour debate regarding City fees is a predictable sideshow – firms will price at a level the market deems acceptable.
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OpinionPriced out of the legal profession
Reform is needed to ensure recruitment processes are truly meritocratic and that the best and brightest can afford to train.