Eduardo Reyes
Features Editor at The Law Society Gazette
Features editor @lawsocgazette. Ex-editor In-House Lawyer Magazine and Lib Dem legal affairs researcher. History, Clare College. Views own; RTs just interesting
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1 month ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Eduardo Reyes
‘Are you happy?’ The magic circle solicitor I’d been at university with seemed thoroughly disconcerted by the question I asked when I saw him at a reception, probably 20-plus years ago. It turned out his three-year marriage had just ended and these days he never got time to play the viola. I don’t remember why I asked him. Happiness, I know, is a matter of degree. But, relevant here, let’s think of two newly qualified lawyers.
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1 month ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Eduardo Reyes
The Commons committee stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has concluded. Now extensively amended, is the legislation fit for purpose? Eduardo Reyes reportsKim Leadbeater MP has taken assisted dying legislation, via her private member’s bill, through second reading in the Commons and to the conclusion of its committee stage.
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1 month ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Eduardo Reyes
Transatlantic law firms with revenues north of £2bn, where profits per equity partners are routinely above £2m, and the gender pay gap is often 50% or over, are centres of wokery. A quarter of a century reporting on the City, and visiting commercial firms in New York, Asia and Europe, and I hadn’t known that. Not until the federal government’s Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) wrote to 20 such firms demanding information on their equality practices.
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1 month ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Eduardo Reyes
Let’s attend an imaginary meeting. It is at the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in St John’s Wood. Several umpires are marched through the venerable long room to stand before a large antique desk specially brought in for the purpose. Behind the desk sits the MCC president, Mervyn King, who as Bank of England Governor once moved economies with the flick on a pen. He’s polite, but has a face like thunder, and this is definitely a meeting without cucumber sandwiches.
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2 months ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Eduardo Reyes
Lawyers have broadly welcomed a key amendment to the ‘end of life’ bill eliminating the requirement for a High Court judge to approve assisted dying requests. The amendment, at committee stage, gives the role to a judge-appointed three person panel. Panellists would be lawyers, social workers and psychiatrists. Judicial oversight was originally promoted as a key safeguard in the proposed legislation.
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Impossible position of law firms that gave in to Trump's executive orders - damage to global partnerships, on the hook for permanent government interference in their business, and pro bono work no-one wants to do... my thoughts in leader of today's Gazette https://t.co/w1Q0QPAeYs
Some sketching with a pen today in Hole Park Garden, which has a bluebell wood (colour not included). https://t.co/s1fTN1e1Dp
Viewed through a 'rule of law' lens, China, and now the US, have huge, self-imposed disadvantages in law, business and society. In Europe, if we do things right, this could be another 'European Century'. My thoughts for today's @lawsocgazette https://t.co/x6xrx7QX5I