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'Be where your legs are': Mental health in the legal profession
2025-05-14T13:22:00+01:00By Greg Hollingsworth
Working on one’s mental health should be an everyday occurrence both at work and at home.
Joined-up digital justice will be a stress buster
2025-05-13T14:52:00+01:00By Rachel Rothwell
A dispute is ever present in a person’s thoughts until it is resolved: the more protracted it is, the worse it gets.
Are we doing enough to stop lawyers relying on AI?
2025-05-13T09:30:00+01:00By John Hyde
It is easy to condemn practitioners who cite hallucinated cases - but are the older heads offering help?
Legal services and technology can kickstart economic growth
2025-05-12T00:01:00+01:00By Sarah Sackman
Legal services attract over £37 billion into the economy every year and we want to support them to grow further.
Best of the blogs - 10 May 2025
2025-05-10T06:02:00+01:00
Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
Mother in Law: The meaning of life
2025-05-09T07:00:00+01:00By Anonymous
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
'Many wept openly. It was over.' Solicitors and VE Day
2025-05-08T07:47:00+01:00By Michael Cross
In May 1945 the Gazette's austere pages hinted that the war was nearing its end.
Restoring confidence in the super-exam
2025-05-07T15:02:00+01:00By Lara Oseni
Failures in providing reasonable adjustments for students, along with a troubling marking scandal, have raised concerns about integrity and fairness.
How international aid cuts may affect lawyers
2025-05-07T09:43:00+01:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
International aid spending safeguards the rule of law, pays for the training of judges and lawyers, and provides legal support for the vulnerable.
Scrutinising treaties: the case for reform
2 May 2025By Joshua Rozenberg
Tension between the role of parliament and the aim of ministers is nowhere more obvious than in the conduct of foreign affairs.
Calling in the experts
2 May 2025By Paul Rogerson
Have you completed the Gazette’s pioneering joint survey with Bond Solon of how solicitors work with expert witnesses?
Best of the blogs - 3 May 2025
2025-05-03T07:28:00+01:00
Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
What Hilary did next
2025-05-02T00:03:00+01:00By Hilary Kingsley
In 2007, an aspiring solicitor wrote in the Gazette about being told she was too old at 60 to start a training contract. She proved otherwise.
Making the leap from journalism to law
By Hilary Kingsley
Court in two minds
2025-04-30T13:31:00+01:00
I was planning a Private Eye pastiche for this column. Unfortunately, the Eye itself beat me to it.
Applying for the deproscription of Hamas is not 'sickening'
2025-04-30T09:12:00+01:00By Fahad Ansari
Shadow lord chancellor Robert Jenrick's claims are of great concern. We are upholding the rule of law.
Justice for growth: the new buzz phrase
2025-04-28T09:39:00+01:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
Countries have often targeted growth as a top priority. What is new is to see the justice sector used as one of its drivers.
Mother in Law: Shun the social media snake oil sellers
2025-04-27T09:00:00+01:00By Anonymous
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
Best of the blogs - 27 April 2025
2025-04-27T07:20:00+01:00
Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
Immigration lawyers defending our core values
2025-04-24T09:35:00+01:00By Jonathan Goldsmith
Lawyers are under attack from powerful forces in a number of democratic countries.
Hands off the courts
2025-04-22T14:06:00+01:00By Raymond Wacks
Governments do not generally relish the pesky interference by courts with their political agenda. And this applies regardless of their ideology.
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