All Letters articles – Page 43
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Opinion
Pressure cooker of the City
Overexposure to pressurised situations is inherently harmful and City firms should be doing more to ease this burden.
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Care in client letters
Please include in client care letters confirmation that contact should not be made with the opposite solicitor.
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Dependants wrongly assessed
Allowances should be assessed on a monthly, not weekly, basis. Clients could be entitled to legal aid without knowing it.
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No head for management
Effective management requires a very wide focus and arguably therefore the best lawyers are likely to be the worst managers.
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Civilised society needs solicitors
There remain some who think that the original concept of a solicitor (and a barrister, for that matter) still has a place in our society.
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Law books: words of wisdom
People seem to think if you have written a book on the topic you may well know something about it.
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Child support after aid cuts
If Simon Hughes wants to put children at the heart of the family court system, he should reverse his government’s demolition of legal aid.
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No jurisdiction restriction
The UK legal profession should support the movement for universal jurisdiction over human rights abuses.
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Illusory rule of law
There is a legitimate argument to be had about cost, but we also have a moral responsibility to those on lower incomes.
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Fix insurance premiums
Why can’t insurance premiums be fixed, and at a level which removes the insurers’ vast marketing budget?
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Jackson’s misdirected energy
Rupert Jackson reminds me of characters in Kipling’s tales of the British Raj.
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Power of a collective
We operate very differently to traditional claims management companies and work with a collective of solicitors.
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Probate case: dodgy economics
There is nothing in Marley v Rawlings which mentions the economics of the case.