Comment and opinion
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OpinionWill Vera Baird get the CCRC back on its feet?
Baird has been asked to review the CCRC’s effectiveness, performance, governance, culture, capability and funding. The most important reform requires a change of mindset.
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OpinionSchooled by scandal
Shabana Mahmood demands changes to address SRA failures and prevent scandal akin to Axiom Ince from recurring. But how interventionist is the regulator now mandated to be?
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OpinionAccent bias and the silent filter in law
While accent bias may often go unspoken, it is no less real. As the profession works to improve diversity, equity and inclusion, language must be part of the conversation.
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OpinionGodwin’s law and the decline of the international order
An attorney general should never fall foul of the law. But last week it appears that the current postholder did.
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OpinionFirms as complaint machines: The SRA’s solution to a problem that doesn’t exist
Client satisfaction with lawyers stands at 87% - so naturally the SRA wants more complaints.
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OpinionThe family justice system is failing to protect those most at risk
National Audit Office's latest report delivers a sobering assessment of a system struggling to meet the needs of vulnerable children and families.
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OpinionParalegals are now recognised as a genuine branch of the legal profession
The view of what a paralegal is and what they can do has changed dramatically over the past decade.
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OpinionLet slip the dogs of law
When the international order is breaking down, why are lawyers not more vocal in protest?
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OpinionSell-by dates
SME law firms are losing their appetite for mergers. Buyouts? That’s a different story.
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OpinionDefendant firms are to blame for soaring credit hire costs
Claimant firms want to find a way to keep cases out of court - but do defendants agree?
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OpinionMother in Law: Scott Simmons, rainmaker maker
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
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OpinionUK must not repeat Australia’s mistakes of constraining access to justice
Litigation funding in the UK is at a critical juncture.
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OpinionProtecting juniors from exploitation
Martin Whitehorn, Law Society Council member for junior solicitors, demonstrates the range of issues which people are getting help with, qualified or otherwise.
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OpinionEU-UK lawyers: common values
At a time of division and polarisation, much unites us as lawyers. The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe Plenary was an occasion to witness such unity.
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OpinionMerger mania subsides
Appetite for mergers and acquisitions has ‘plummeted’, LexisNexis report finds.
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OpinionNaming rights and wrongs: Will Hill Dickinson stick at Everton?
Hill Dickinson is now moving in the same circles as Allianz and Spotify.
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OpinionA special tribunal for aggression against Ukraine
New court would try senior political and military leaders accused of planning, preparing, initiating or executing the war of aggression that Russia and its allies launched in 2022.
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OpinionStarmer's bizarre misrepresentation of UK immigration will damage growth and industries
Debate around immigration should not be based on oversimplified, sweeping comments seeking to reduce a technical and complicated legal landscape to soundbites.