Stephen Mayson
@stephenmayson.bsky.social
Independent non-exec director & strategic advisor; independent reviewer of legal services regulation; Hon Prof UCL; Bencher Lincoln’s Inn; wine fan
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An updated link to register for our event with Lady Arden on 15 October 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
In conversation with Lady Arden of Heswall, DBE
This event is organised by the UCL Centre for Ethics & Law
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
An updated link to register for our event with Lady Arden on 15 October 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
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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
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pa5...
#ProfessionalEthics
#LegalProfession
#BestInterests
@laws.ucl.ac.uk
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September 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
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...
Details at www.facultyoffice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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May 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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...
Details at www.facultyoffice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Stop enabling kleptocrats, ethics task force tells lawyers - in @TimesLaw www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
Stop enabling kleptocrats, ethics task force tells lawyers
A report says the profession’s reputation is at risk when acting for clients with unexplained wealth and abusive litigators
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April 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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...
Lunch Hour Lecture | Lawyers and ‘acting in the best interests of clients’’
Professor Stephen Mayson discusses what it should mean for lawyers to fulfil their professional duty to act in the best interests of their clients.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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:
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Where is the Justice? – The Leaders Club
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November 26, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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...
www.theleadersclub.org/item/where-i...
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Ethical clashes can cause young lawyers health problems www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...
Ethical clashes can cause young lawyers health problems
Having a professional identity as a young lawyer that does not align with the values of your law firm could turn “wellbeing issues into serious health problems”, a leading legal academic has warned.
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November 26, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Ethical clashes can cause young lawyers health problems www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...
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In-house solicitors pressured to misuse privilege www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...
In-house solicitors pressured to misuse privilege
In-house solicitors have been pressured to misuse legal professional privilege as a way to suppress the proper disclosure of information, the SRA has said.
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November 22, 2024 at 9:20 AM
In-house solicitors pressured to misuse privilege www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...
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💭 Rethinking ethics training
“Ethics interventions have failed and will continue to fail because they are predicated on a false assumption: … “
#legalethics #iopsychology
“Ethics interventions have failed and will continue to fail because they are predicated on a false assumption: … “
#legalethics #iopsychology
November 20, 2024 at 7:46 AM
💭 Rethinking ethics training
“Ethics interventions have failed and will continue to fail because they are predicated on a false assumption: … “
#legalethics #iopsychology
“Ethics interventions have failed and will continue to fail because they are predicated on a false assumption: … “
#legalethics #iopsychology
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Lack of sanction for costs draftsman shows “hole in regulation” www.legalfutures.co.uk/litigation-d...
Lack of sanction for costs draftsman shows "hole in regulation"
A judge’s comments on the lack of recourse against an unregulated costs draftsman should focus minds on this hole in legal regulation, the Association of Costs Lawyers has argued.
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November 20, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Lack of sanction for costs draftsman shows “hole in regulation” www.legalfutures.co.uk/litigation-d...
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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/...
Mayson: Lawyers must prioritise public interest over clients
Lawyers seem to have forgotten that the public interest trumps the client interest and this needs to change, Professor Stephen Mayson has argued.
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November 18, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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?
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Mayson: Lawyers must prioritise public interest over clients www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...
Mayson: Lawyers must prioritise public interest over clients
Lawyers seem to have forgotten that the public interest trumps the client interest and this needs to change, Professor Stephen Mayson has argued.
www.legalfutures.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Mayson: Lawyers must prioritise public interest over clients www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...
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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...
Moorhead: "We have to change the way lawyers think and behave"
The leading figure on legal ethics in the UK has called for the creation of an independent commission charged with improving “honesty, integrity and effectiveness in the use of law”.
legalfutures.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 6:40 AM
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...
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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?
October 31, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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?
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Blog: The SRA – an unprecedented crisis of confidence www.legalfutures.co.uk/blog/the-sra...
The SRA – an unprecedented crisis of confidence
Be in no doubt that yesterday marked the deepest crisis that the Solicitors Regulation Authority has ever faced. It needs to show humility and accountability.
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October 30, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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
“Are you proud to be a lawyer?”
Once, this was not a difficult question to answer. When I became a barrister in 1977, my answer would have been immediate and unequivocal. Like many of my generation, I was the first in the famil…
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September 30, 2024 at 11:12 AM
“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
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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...
The Hamlyn Lectures 2024 | Frail Professionalism, Lawyers Ethics after the Post Office and other cases
These lectures will argue it is time to change the way lawyers think and behave, and how courts, clients, and regulators set their expectations. You can now book tickets for Exeter, Leeds, or London.
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August 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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...