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		<title>Moses and the 161 Commandments</title>
		<link>http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/moses-and-the-161-commandments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moses LJs has given another speech attacking the QASA approach to assessing advocacy skills.  It is a cracking read (though I believe flawed, see below).  He appears to engaging in a full frontal assault on the approach of the Bar Standards &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/moses-and-the-161-commandments/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=993&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hacking and lawyers: privilege again&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Harding, editor of the Times apologised today to the Leveson inquiry for not disclosing information to Mr Justice Eady, in a 2009 injunction application, that would have confirmed a journalist at his paper had hacked into an email account.  In particular, &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/hacking-and-lawyers-privilege-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=988&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judgment-based practice and lawyers as gate-keepers: a return to ethics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The business pages tell us corporate leaders, perhaps cowed by reactions to executive pay and the more general desire to rebuild the legitimacy of capitalism, are increasingly interested in ethics. An interesting question is whether this change, if it is &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/judgment-based-practice-and-lawyers-as-gate-keepers-a-return-to-ethics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=985&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hackgate VII:  Some more questions&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian has run an interesting story on the deletion of apparently relevant evidence in the Hackgate cases: the Mysteries of Data Pool 3.  Key points appear to be: &#8220;&#8230;Murdoch&#8217;s Management and Standards Committee has now handed them what may &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/hackgate-vii-some-more-questions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=977&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practice for Judges in Litigants in Person Cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is  guest post from Richard Zorza on his US Judges Journal Article. As a UK ex-pat, I try to keep a careful eye on legal developments in the UK (thanks mainly to this blog!)  I thought you readers might &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/best-practice-for-judges-in-litigants-in-person-cases/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=973&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Wannabee) Law Students: One graph which signals your future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Law Students are not renowned for their love of maths. But in the SRA&#8217;s consultation paper on minimum salaries there is one very important graph which illustrates a very important phenomena about lawyer salaries. Every law student should spend a &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/wannabee-law-students-one-graph-which-dictates-your-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=967&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minimum Salary: In real trouble this time</title>
		<link>http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/minimum-salary-in-real-trouble-this-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time there is a recession, the solicitors&#8217; profession likes to reconsider minimum salaries for its trainees. For a while this was a kind of annual sport. Chairs of the Trainee Solicitors&#8217; Group and the Young Solicitors&#8217; Group Lawyers (I &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/minimum-salary-in-real-trouble-this-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=961&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bar Barometers, Aptitude Tests and THOSE numbers</title>
		<link>http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/bar-barometers-aptitude-tests-and-those-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Bar Standards Board releasing its (second) annual statistical report or Barometer as they more elegantly describe it, and the legal journos picking up on the increase in those applying to do the BPTC, it occurred to me now &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/bar-barometers-aptitude-tests-and-those-numbers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=954&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to collect settlement data for personal injury cases?</title>
		<link>http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/time-to-collect-settlement-data-for-personal-injury-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Zorza&#8217;s an excellent and prolific blogger on access to justice in the US. He has highlighted an issue around settlement mills in personal injury cases. We&#8217;d call them factories. He&#8217;s drawing on a paper by Nora Engstrom. Interestingly, there &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/time-to-collect-settlement-data-for-personal-injury-cases/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=951&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Lawyers Need Scholars?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moorhead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my talk to UCL&#8217;s debate on legal education: do lawyers need to be scholars? I have amended it slightly to read as a blog rather than a talk. If we leave the question at &#8216;do lawyers need to &#8230; <a href="http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/948/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyerwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8016112&amp;post=948&amp;subd=lawyerwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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