Taint of torture remains despite overlay of legal process

Let me begin with an outrageous position for any lawyer – let alone one who once specialised in criminal defence. I believe that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) is guilty of conspiracy to murder 2,977 people in, and over, the US on 11 September 2001. What is much more outrageous is that the US, by its treatment of him, has foresworn any chance of legitimacy for the process of his prosecution and punishment.

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Solicitors in Sevenoaks

Members of the legal profession should support Occupy

by Melanie Strickland, a solicitor and Occupy Law UK

We are all aware that our economic system brings misery, exploitation and death to a large number of people and other living beings.

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Family Law Solicitors Sevenoaks

It will soon matter (even) more how much loot resides in the ‘bank of mum and dad’

There are few things as dispiriting in modern public life as the sight of the great and good pulling up the drawbridge of opportunity. David Willetts, ‘the thinking person’s Tory MP’, has written a provocative book about the phenomenon: the unambiguously titled The Pinch: How the baby-boomers stole their children’s future. A pithy shorthand describes the trend as ‘inter-generational theft’.

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Sevenoaks Divorce Lawyers

COLPs and COFAs central to outcomes-focused regulation

The launch of outcomes-focused regulation (OFR) on 6 October 2011 marked a pivotal shift in how law firms are regulated, with a less prescriptive and more risk-based approach. It has required firms to look closely at how they run their businesses and whether they have appropriate systems and procedures in place to provide competent and ethical legal services.

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Family Law Solicitors Sevenoaks

Open letter: trainee solicitors and the minimum salary

We are a few of the thousands of students who have passed the LPC exam and are desperately waiting for training contracts. We and many of our other friends have been applying for training contracts for over two years since passing the LPC but without success. Some of us have made more than 300 applications and very few firms invited us for interviews but we have not been successful.

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