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All News blog articles – Page 25
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OpinionWhere’s the apology for Mitchell chaos?
It cannot just be district judges and opportunistic solicitors to blame for the mess the original Mitchell judgment caused.
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OpinionBar deal applies to just 0.1% of work
Agreement on VHCCs does nothing to aid majority of criminal bar, let alone solicitors.
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OpinionSpying on children’s special needs provision
How might the reforms being made to these needs affect legal rights and education?
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OpinionThe future of the bar is….
For all its laudable efforts, the bar is still conspicuously pale and male.
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OpinionFace-to-face with the niqab
The European Court of Human Rights never ceases to come up with judgments that baffle or infuriate.
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OpinionPII arguments fall on deaf ears
The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s plan has one more hurdle to clear.
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OpinionIn search of the Inns of Court trenches
A Chilterns common still bears scars of what lawyers did in the Great War.
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Opinion‘Scuzzy’ pre-packs are here to stay
Review of insolvency vehicle used in many distressed law firm sales favours voluntary scrutiny.
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OpinionRebekah Brooks is innocent. Move on.
Everyone seems to have an opinion on high-profile trials, but justice is not Big Brother.
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OpinionInfant claims: a big problem
District judges must toe the line and allow success fees in infant claims.
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OpinionDon’t dismiss the value of students when couples split
Law students have a useful administrative role to play in divorce cases and will be able to ease workloads and reduce delays.
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OpinionCharge of the land brigade
Land Registry has bent slightly to critics, but questions remain over its future.
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OpinionPoor Goliath can’t even raise a smile
Corporations are guilty of disingenuous nonsense when they scaremonger about claims.
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OpinionGet up, stand up for IP rights
How does a judgment in a Bob Marley copyright case affect the interpretation of contracts?
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OpinionGrayling should embrace the fourth revolution
The lord chancellor’s Public Defender Service strategy illustrates the tendency of the state to grow, no matter what.
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OpinionPortal problems
Defendants complain of behaviour deliberately designed to avoid EL/PL portal.
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OpinionIt’s impossible to solve the Mitchell riddle
Jackson wanted consistency; lawyers want common sense. The two are incompatible.
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OpinionNot one of the ‘pusillanimous’
Nigerian human rights lawyer Rommy Mom asked awkward questions and paid the price.
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OpinionPicking at the threads of justice
Op Cotton ruling removes the notion of the independent bar for complex cases, replacing it with an inadequate nationalised public defender.
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OpinionCPD reform: a ‘race to the bottom’?
The existing CPD regime may be ‘tick-box’; but what is likely to replace it is even more so.