‘The ‘no brown in town’ adage has been the subject of scorn, sneers and scandal in City pubs for more than 100 years. Yet despite an increasing awareness of social mobility and social taboos, one top city law firm appears to have shunned such progress.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th April 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Agile working is on the rise in the legal profession, with employees free to work where, when and how they choose.’
The Guardian, 26th March 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Lawyers are wrong to think that there are tasks beyond technology that only they can carry out, Professor Richard Susskind has warned.’
Legal Futures, 20th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Last month the Solicitors Regulation Authority published its response to its ‘Reporting Concerns’ consultation, launched last year. You could be forgiven for missing the fanfare but this was big news in the world of law firm and lawyer regulation.’
Law Society's Gazette, 11th March 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In this article Richard Spearman QC discusses the issues raised in Winstone and Others v MGN Ltd [2019] EWHC (Ch) 265 in which he represented the defendant. The application arose in the Mirror Newspapers Hacking Litigation, and concerned the extent to which materials subject to legal professional privilege remained susceptible to protection after they had been pleaded by claimants.’
39 Essex Chambers, 28th February 2019
Source: www.39essex.com
‘Frances Gibb has retired after nearly forty years as legal journalist and editor, covering everything from Lord Irvine’s pricey wallpaper to the release of the Guildford Four. She talks to Rosalind English about the challenges of reporting on a profession highly sensitive to slips and slights.’
Law Pod UK, 11th March 2019
Source: audioboom.com
‘Top women judges have called on senior lawyers to take responsibility for ensuring there is no discrimination in their organisations rather than leaving it to diversity specialists.’
Legal Futures, 11th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The president of the family division has rejected a wife’s application to admit the statement of a “whistleblower” inside her former husband’s legal team who sent the court privileged information.’
Legal Futures, 5th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘There is “room for review” of the legal regulation regime, made more urgent by the developments in technology, Lord Keen, the Ministry of Justice’s spokesman in the House of Lords, said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 28th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Addressing the “lack of social diversity at the top of the legal profession” is an important part of improving judicial diversity, the Lord Chief Justice declared yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 19th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Men in the legal profession need to “call out” other men if they witness sexual harassment, according to the barrister Helena Kennedy QC, who has urged such behaviour to be made the subject of disciplinary action.’
The Guardian, 16th February 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Gwyneth Bebb was born in Oxford in 1889. She was the sixth woman to study law at Oxford University, reading jurisprudence at St Hugh’s College. She completed her studies in 1911 with first class marks, yet she didn’t formally graduate because women at the time couldn’t be awarded degrees.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An overhaul tackling sexism, racism and class discrimination would address the profession’s failure to reflect the society it represents.’
The Guardian, 18th February 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A report on global access to legal services has identified established legal professions led by lawyers as a block to progress and urged them to step aside in favour of non-lawyer leaders who can be relied on to bring in necessary reforms without self-interest.’
Legal Futures, 8th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Speech by Lord Justice Gross: London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association Annual Lecture.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 16th January 2019
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘If we are serious about addressing the mental health and wellbeing of legal professionals then we need to look at the culture and practice of law, says Elizabeth Rimmer writing in our special supplement on how to travel well in the law.’
New Law Journal, 13th December 2018
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘The same issues often crop up across an array of regulatory work. Legal professional privilege is the most obvious example, with a number of high profile cases arising out of SFO investigations. A second example concerns the rights of third parties to prevent the publication of adverse comment about them in regulatory reports and decisions (‘Maxwellisation’). In this article, Jamie Smith QC and Helen Evans explain how these two issues have arisen in the context of disciplinary investigations and proceedings undertaken by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), which plays an important role in the regulation of accountants.’
4 New Square, 11th December 2018
Source: www.4newsquare.com
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