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Legal Week have just posted an interesting looking survey.  This caught my eye: The top five reasons that influence students to apply for a training contract at a particular firm are career prospects post-qualification; the brand of the firm; gender … Continue reading →

The Government’s proposals for legal aid cuts have drawn a great deal of criticism, but the focus of nearly all of this has been on criminal defence work. It’s a failing I have been guilt of myself (I co-signed a … Continue reading →

I have been thinking quite a bit recently about how lawyers conceptualise and manage ethics within their organisations. Also, separately, I have begun to look at how they conceptualise and manage legal risk. Whilst the temptation is to see these … Continue reading →

The Government has announced its intentions to make further cuts to the legal aid programme; concentrating especially on prisoners cases; and criminal legal aid.  The oft mooted and abandoned price competitive tendering of criminal work (but not Crown Court advocacy) … Continue reading →

The Cabinet Office and the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel have published a very interesting report criticising the complexity and quality of legislation and suggesting a much greater willingness to do something about it through a Good Law initiative. In … Continue reading →

Sir Alan Ward  has signed of his “penultimate judgment in the Court of Appeal” with some rather poetic prose; so poetic in fact, I could not resist the urge to put in line breaks. The two key passages of the … Continue reading →

For those in the professions, or elsewhere, who like to wax lyrical about the problems created by litigants in person and the potential problems of Alternative Business Structures then the Stobart Group Limited and Others v Peter Elliot [2013] EWHC … Continue reading →

There’s an interesting judgment involving two litigants in person just been published. Sir Alan Ward’s opening paragraphs have garnered a lot of attention: This judgment will make depressing reading. It concerns a dispute between two intelligent and not unsuccessful businessmen … Continue reading →

With some trepidation I step into the hornets’ nest that is the Cab Rank Rule debate. It is a debate littered with ironic parenthesis from professional bodies; a mutually assured contempt of insider or outsider depending on which tent one … Continue reading →

A fascinating U.S. study by Charles Whitehead, Lubomir Litov and Simone Lepe has suggested that having lawyers as non-executive directors may improve corporate governance; increase the value of those companies and their ability to borrow. Increased litigation and regulation alongside … Continue reading →