Word for the Week

Lean not on your own understanding

Week beginning: 6th July, 2025 | By HHJ Mark Cawson KC | Manchester

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

It is all too easy in our work as lawyers and in our lives more generally to slip into the belief that we know all the answers. We can let our pride, arrogance or sense of importance take over our thinking and drive the decisions that we come to. Thi