All News blog articles – Page 27
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Opinion
Costs management is here to stay
The removal of the £2m-plus cases costs management exemption will ultimately lead to clarity for both solicitors and clients.
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Profile
Lloyd George’s secretary knew my father
No commemoration of 1914 can overlook the most influential solicitor of all time.
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Opinion
The end of the affair
Many criminal solicitors feel betrayed by the bar on legal aid. But they must not be embittered.
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Opinion
Arbitration in PI: a signal to the judiciary?
Could arbitration really be used in personal injury, or is this more of a message to the judges?
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Opinion
Local heroes seek new models
Council legal departments are buzzing with survival strategies in the face of continued cuts.
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Opinion
Is it time to scrap mandatory PII?
Is the best way to stop this annual hoopla to give the client a choice?
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Opinion
Pigeon-steps towards open justice
The Law Commission's proposal to publish reporting restrictions is overdue and welcome.
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Opinion
Police claims: ‘insurmountable’ costs barrier
How the Jackson reforms have inhibited police claims.
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Opinion
Human rights and the bottom line
Human rights campaigns should not depend on cost-benefits analyses – but they can come in handy.
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Opinion
Quotas need not be a blunt instrument
When done with commercial skill and good judgement, targets and quotas are really succession planning.
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Opinion
Why don’t women lawyers write letters?
Over 90% of letters published by the Gazette are from men. Why?
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Opinion
Who on earth would blab to the SRA?
As long as firms fear the regulator, they are unlikely to seek help over their finances.
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Opinion
Western law firms in Russia
The fallout from Ukraine could reach UK and US lawyers based in Moscow.
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Profile
Shot at dawn: time to look at the truth
To learn more about solicitors’ role in capital courts martial of the first world war, we need to discard some myths.
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Opinion
Help for Heroes? Not from this government
The coalition trumpets its admiration of our armed forces – but would take away their human rights.
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Opinion
Why the law on psychiatric harm must change
The law on claims for psychiatric injury is outdated, arbitrary and harsh.
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Opinion
Jackson or Mitchell? Either way it’s a mess
Whatever name you attach to them, there can be no doubt that costs budgeting rules are not working.
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Opinion
What’s wrong with learning on the job?
Plans to allow school leavers to train as solicitors could help young people bypass the costly university route.
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Opinion
More woe at the Co-op – whither legal services?
What could the mutual’s troubles mean for the poster child of alternative business structures?