An updated link to register for our event with Lady Arden on 15 October 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

We are delighted to share the recording of @stephenmayson.bsky.social UCL lunch hour lecture discussing lawyers and what it means (or should mean) to be acting in a client's best interests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pa5... #ProfessionalEthics #LegalProfession #BestInterests @laws.ucl.ac.uk

I am very honoured to be delivering the Faculty Office annual rule of law lecture for 2025. It is on 10 July in Westminster and will explore the rule of law and ethical integrity. Details at www.facultyoffice.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Stop enabling kleptocrats, ethics task force tells lawyers - in @TimesLaw www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

For the diary: on Tuesday 18 March, I shall be giving a UCL lunchtime lecture on ‘Lawyers and ‘acting in the best interests of clients’’. It's online, free and booking details are at www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

Leaders Club online session with former Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk KC, December 2 at 6pm. Not-to-be-missed session, Where is the Justice?, reflections on crucial changes that he sees as vital to restoring confidence in the justice system. Sign up here: www.theleadersclub.org/item/where-i...

Ethical clashes can cause young lawyers health problems www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

In-house solicitors pressured to misuse privilege www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

💭 Rethinking ethics training “Ethics interventions have failed and will continue to fail because they are predicated on a false assumption: … “ #legalethics #iopsychology

Lack of sanction for costs draftsman shows “hole in regulation” www.legalfutures.co.uk/litigation-d...

This is a serious piece of legal scholarship by @stephenmayson.bsky.social which a 700-word news story cannot really do justice to. This and the recent Hamlyn Lectures from @richardmoorhead.bsky.social are sounding a claxon about legal ethics. Is the profession listening? Will it be made to?

Mayson: Lawyers must prioritise public interest over clients www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

We have to change the way lawyers think and behave. How? Some thoughts... legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/... and for some detail lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2024/11/14/l...

I should say as well as the Post Office and Neuberger, we have guest appearances from a Mr Amersi, various banking scandals, enabling Oligarchs, Al Fayed, Weinstein, Green and top billing for former Times lawyer and his handling of the Nighthack disgrace. Let’s just cease to be subjective shall we?

Blog: The SRA – an unprecedented crisis of confidence www.legalfutures.co.uk/blog/the-sra...

“Are you proud to be a lawyer?”. A new post, announcing the publication of the third report of the Independent Review of Legal Services Regulation (@IRLSR). It focuses on the meaning and implications for lawyers of ‘acting in the public interest’: wp.me/p1rQgF-1zy

Hamlyn Lectures. Me (I know, sorry not sorry). On Frail Professionalism. A lot on the PO but also other things. Book now. Free and open to all… open.substack.com/pub/richardm...