Legal profession in Britain: The 1992 conundrum

In an era of change, the year 1992 will be significant for some lawyers while irrelevant to others. Among solicitors big City firms are prospering, but those who depend on legal aid feel the pinch. The Bar has long‐term problems. Many of these developments are irreversible, argues Marcel Berlins in an Article in the “Financial Times” written shortly before the Lord Chancellor's recent announcement of proposed reforms.     

The hundredth volume of the Law Reports of the Commonwealth

This article, written as a foreword to the hundredth volume of the Law Reports of the Commonwealth (LRC), celebrates the growing success of these law reports published since 1985. Generally appearing in four or five volumes each year, the reports collect some of the main cases, mostly from final courts, decided throughout the Commonwealth of Nations. With the demise of the Privy Council as an institutional link, the courts of the Commonwealth remain connected by the English language, a shared doctrinal and historical tradition, common legal taxonomies and a similar professional culture. The author pays special tribute to the excellent Cumulative Indexes from the 1980s to date; the insightful annual Editorial Reviews which draw attention to grand themes and trends throughout the Commonwealth in the LRCs; the outstanding work of the two foundation general editors Professor James Read and Dr. Peter Slinn; and the publishers Butterworths LexisNexis. In the place of imperial rule there is now a free sharing of knowledge in the law, as befits the free association of the Commonwealth of Nations.     

Creating Entrepreneurial Universities in the UK: Applying Entrepreneurship Theory to Practice

In the modern knowledge economy higher educational institutions are being required to operate more entrepreneurially, commercialising the results of their research and spinning out new, knowledge-based enterprises. Like most large organisations, particularly those operating in the public sector, they are not traditionally suited to this role and often face the same sort of barriers to intrapreneurial activity as their counterparts in the private sector. In this note, the theories of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship development are used to identify what needs to be done and a case example is provided.