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Recent cases of misconduct involving solicitors and doctors illustrate the dilemmas facing Regulators who have the overriding duty of protecting the public, and the lengths to which they should go to achieve that goal. Last year a partner in a…

In a report grandiosely titled: Reforming Legal Services: Regulation Beyond the Echo Chambers Professor Stephen Mayson, honorary professor of law at University College, London, has presented his 319-page Independent Review of Legal Services Regulation The proposals, which Professor Mayson stresses…

It is, or should be, self-evident that trust and the rule of law go hand in hand. At a time when the country is subject to emergency legislation including rules and guidance that would, in ordinary times, be regarded as…

Trial by jury should be sacrosanct. “Each jury is a little parliament” wrote the distinguished jurist, Lord Devlin: “The jury sense is the parliamentary sense. I cannot see one dying and the other surviving.” Whilst acknowledging that trial by jury…

The Health Protection Regulations (Coronavirus Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 may be a temporary restriction of our liberty which we have to endure, but unofficial guidance in whatever form is unhelpful and dangerous in the wrong hands. Restrictions on movement create…

Derisory sentences do not fit international crimes, as a trial judge must have realised this week when he sentenced three men each to 3 years and 4 months imprisonment for what has been described as “burglary tourism”, whilst commenting that…

Why is it that dirty money matters to lawyers? If you are a lawyer, it is something that should be at the forefront of your mind. Dirty money matters to lawyers because it is the proceeds of crime, very often…