Eduardo Reyes
@edreyesjourno.bsky.social
Features editor, Law Society Gazette. Ex-editor In-House Lawyer Magazine and Lib Dem legal affairs researcher. History, Clare College. Views own.
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Eduardo Reyes
@edreyesjourno.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Episode 1: Women Lawyers and Lavatories - Always a Feminist Issue? | Not for Want of Trying
Are women's toilets a feminist issue? In this episode, we speak to Eduardo Reyes, commissioning and features editor at the Law Society Gazette, about the Law Society's installation of women’s lavatori...
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Podcast: me in conversation with professors Erika Rackley and Sharon Thompson talking about my research on the 4 year fight for The Law Society's first women's lavatories. It's a great series that I was really happy to join.
There's a book #Christmas
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From a fake deadline to wild claims of consequential loss - Trump's lawyer's letter demanding $1billion from the BBC has a familiar feel for all media editors. (And yes, of course journalists share these letters with each other.)
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Trump lawyer’s letter to the BBC – comfortingly familiar to media editors everywhere
Such letters always have so many points in common.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From a fake deadline to wild claims of consequential loss - Trump's lawyer's letter demanding $1billion from the BBC has a familiar feel for all media editors. (And yes, of course journalists share these letters with each other.)
www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
A summer of 'outreach' on SEND reform did little to quell concerns that existing legal rights are threatened. I look at the rival lobbying and the outcome of two reports in today's @lawsocgazette
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Rival lobbies clash on SEND rights
Months of conciliatory meetings and more reports on special educational needs and disabilities have done little to reassure affected families that children's rights will not be significantly diluted.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A summer of 'outreach' on SEND reform did little to quell concerns that existing legal rights are threatened. I look at the rival lobbying and the outcome of two reports in today's @lawsocgazette
www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/riv...
www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/riv...
It's no secret that a rented self catering holiday cottage is my favourite break. That is not least because of the comments we get to read in the 'guest book', left by previous visitors - revealed here... Welcome back everyone - I know what you wrote.
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The guest book of a rented holiday cottage
You have likely driven in a ‘family car’ for somewhere between two and ten hours. Or perhaps you have taken a train from a major terminus – London Liverpool Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Edinburgh Wa...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's no secret that a rented self catering holiday cottage is my favourite break. That is not least because of the comments we get to read in the 'guest book', left by previous visitors - revealed here... Welcome back everyone - I know what you wrote.
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Land but no children - observing the diplomacy around Ukraine, it feels like we've landed in 'Vulgaria'. Except world leaders would be content to take a flight home without children being freed.
Thoughts for today's Gazette.
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Thoughts for today's Gazette.
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Land, peace, security… and children, surely?
Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, at least 19,546 Ukrainian children have been taken. There is talk of a land deal, but no children deal is on the table.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Land but no children - observing the diplomacy around Ukraine, it feels like we've landed in 'Vulgaria'. Except world leaders would be content to take a flight home without children being freed.
Thoughts for today's Gazette.
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Thoughts for today's Gazette.
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100-plus public figures, academics and campaign groups warn 'every sign from the government suggests the right to an EHCP is to be removed from children attending mainstream schools.' I unpick the battle over legal rights & @lawsocgazette's dealings w DfE
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SEND reform and legal rights
The 'parents of disabled children' club was one I didn't want to join, and yet was shattered to leave with the death of my daughter in February. Re-engaging with these issues at this time, I find extr...
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July 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
100-plus public figures, academics and campaign groups warn 'every sign from the government suggests the right to an EHCP is to be removed from children attending mainstream schools.' I unpick the battle over legal rights & @lawsocgazette's dealings w DfE
www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/sen...
www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/sen...
How to respond when clients cry - a nicely considered article for @lawsocgazette by barrister and clinical negligence specialist Daniel Sokol.
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When clients cry in conference
A client in tears is a test of the balance between head and heart. How, in practice, can this delicate balance be struck?
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June 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
How to respond when clients cry - a nicely considered article for @lawsocgazette by barrister and clinical negligence specialist Daniel Sokol.
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The 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: edition.pagesuite.com/infinity/art...
Existential dilemma
Existential dilemma
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May 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The 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: edition.pagesuite.com/infinity/art...
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 Law Society Gazette.
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In Europe, if we do things right, this could be another 'European Century'.
My thoughts for today's Law Society Gazette.
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This could be the European Century
Europe can seem to move slowly, but it is showing it can adapt in finance and defence. Our social welfare safety nets are under stress, but they exist.
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April 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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 Law Society Gazette.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
In Europe, if we do things right, this could be another 'European Century'.
My thoughts for today's Law Society Gazette.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
I take a look at the amended assisted dying legislation ahead of a Commons vote on 16 May. It's far from the beast opponents claim, but its safeguards and processes are an exhausting threat to autonomy.
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'Safety' v autonomy
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 reports.
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April 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I take a look at the amended assisted dying legislation ahead of a Commons vote on 16 May. It's far from the beast opponents claim, but its safeguards and processes are an exhausting threat to autonomy.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/saf...
www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/saf...
Our daughter Amy's obituary in the Guardian's Other Lives section - just published online. She was a complex, clever, severely disabled music loving girl who didn't suffer fools, and who changed our lives. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Amy Reyes obituary
Other lives: Music-loving teenager who was a consummate communicator, despite the restrictions imposed on her by Rett syndrome
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March 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Our daughter Amy's obituary in the Guardian's Other Lives section - just published online. She was a complex, clever, severely disabled music loving girl who didn't suffer fools, and who changed our lives. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
JD Vance providing a moving reminder in the Oval Office today that Trump is not the only thin skinned crazy in the White House.
February 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
JD Vance providing a moving reminder in the Oval Office today that Trump is not the only thin skinned crazy in the White House.
"It was awful if I'm honest." Irwin Mitchell's prizewinning Alison Eddie talks progress with me - from harassment and getting male colleagues' page 3 pinups taken down, to leading a 450-strong London office with a majority female partnership.
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Law Society Gazette
Law Society Gazette - 14/02/2025
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February 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"It was awful if I'm honest." Irwin Mitchell's prizewinning Alison Eddie talks progress with me - from harassment and getting male colleagues' page 3 pinups taken down, to leading a 450-strong London office with a majority female partnership.
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I don't know why Trump seems bothered by the International Criminal Court. It could only come after him for a future war crime if US courts weren't able to keep him accountable.
Oh hang on...
Oh hang on...
February 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I don't know why Trump seems bothered by the International Criminal Court. It could only come after him for a future war crime if US courts weren't able to keep him accountable.
Oh hang on...
Oh hang on...
Critics say the SRA's consultation on an end to solicitors holding client money is a distraction from its regulatory failures; the SRA counters it's part of a much bigger piece of consumer protection and rights work. My article for today's Gazette.
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Deposits R Us?
Deposits R Us?
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February 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Critics say the SRA's consultation on an end to solicitors holding client money is a distraction from its regulatory failures; the SRA counters it's part of a much bigger piece of consumer protection and rights work. My article for today's Gazette.
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As we look at the Trump tariffs and trade threats, does strike me that if the USA had spent the post-1970 period making better cars and nicer cheese, to take two examples, more people would buy American anyway.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
February 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
As we look at the Trump tariffs and trade threats, does strike me that if the USA had spent the post-1970 period making better cars and nicer cheese, to take two examples, more people would buy American anyway.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Freeths partner Penny Simpson takes a bat's eye view of Rachel Reeves assertion that nature's newts are getting in the way of growth for today's Law Society Gazette.
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'Protecting every bat and every newt': busting myths about nature conservation and planning
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says we have gone too far in 'protecting every bat and every newt' and should 'crack on and get the development built'.
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January 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Freeths partner Penny Simpson takes a bat's eye view of Rachel Reeves assertion that nature's newts are getting in the way of growth for today's Law Society Gazette.
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I'm not sure Agincourt is a very good name for a British warship anyway - you know, given the French won the Hundred Years War.
January 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm not sure Agincourt is a very good name for a British warship anyway - you know, given the French won the Hundred Years War.
Feminist campaigning lawyer Harriet Wistrich was excellent on Desert Island Discs - reflected in the Gazette's Obiter column today. Episode being repeated on Radio 4 right now.
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Harriet’s desert songs
Harriet’s desert songs
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January 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Feminist campaigning lawyer Harriet Wistrich was excellent on Desert Island Discs - reflected in the Gazette's Obiter column today. Episode being repeated on Radio 4 right now.
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Odd, isn't it, the way it doesn't matter which party is in power - once they are in power, they go off judicial review, and decide it must be what's keeping them just short of brilliance in public office.
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Starmer blasts 'Nimbys and zealots gumming up the legal system'
'Current rules don't work', prime minister writes ahead of annnouncement on judicial review reform.
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January 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Odd, isn't it, the way it doesn't matter which party is in power - once they are in power, they go off judicial review, and decide it must be what's keeping them just short of brilliance in public office.
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I think we're at the start of another four year period of no pet dog in the White House.
January 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I think we're at the start of another four year period of no pet dog in the White House.
As Trump hits the Whitehouse, will US and global law firms join big tech's rush to abandon equality and diversity efforts? I think not. Their experience of looking at, not least, gender pay gaps shows the financial and productivity cost of talent getting 'stuck'
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Sitting out a corporate 'war on woke'
Mark Zuckerberg wants 'masculine energy' to replace 'feminine energy' in the work place. For reasons of sound business, and common sense, law firm leaders won't agree.
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January 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
As Trump hits the Whitehouse, will US and global law firms join big tech's rush to abandon equality and diversity efforts? I think not. Their experience of looking at, not least, gender pay gaps shows the financial and productivity cost of talent getting 'stuck'
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Anyway, happy Martin Luther King Day, everyone.
January 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Anyway, happy Martin Luther King Day, everyone.
As welcomed the new year, the traditional New Year's Day Concert in Vienna had a treat for M&A lawyers - grab your [equity] partner by the hand for the Transactions Waltz... www.lawgazette.co.uk/obiter/we-co...
We could have danced all night
After the Solicitors' Waltz, something to have M&A lawyers reaching for their dancing shoes.
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January 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
As welcomed the new year, the traditional New Year's Day Concert in Vienna had a treat for M&A lawyers - grab your [equity] partner by the hand for the Transactions Waltz... www.lawgazette.co.uk/obiter/we-co...
Happy Christmas from us. (Me with our youngest daughter, Amy, yesterday). X
December 25, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Happy Christmas from us. (Me with our youngest daughter, Amy, yesterday). X