24 May 2013
The Friends Meeting House in London was a heartening place to be on Wednesday, in the midst of the war that has erupted around price competitive tendering and this comment on the ‘minister of injustice’ by Sir Anthony Hooper QC was one of many well-crafted, quotable reasons as to just how wrong Grayling is with [...]
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24 May 2013
The MoJ roadshow rolled into Liverpool on Tuesday, when a packed audience filled the Corbiere Suite at Aintree racecourse. A splendid panoramic view of the whole course in bright evening sunshine only proved distracting until the business of the evening began. Tweet
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10 May 2013
This week’s Queen’s speech has been described as a “mouse of a programme” but last year’s speech contained a raft of new measures to transform the justice system and keep both the legal profession and civil libertarians very interested. Twelve months on this is what has happened to them. Tweet
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08 May 2013
50 lawyers in Liverpool last Friday evening left Law Society representatives in no doubt about their preferred approach to the MoJ’s ‘Transforming Legal Aid’ consultation exercise. The event was the latest in the Society’s roadshow programme, sponsored by iLaw, to meet with practitioners to discuss current issues and to canvass views. Tweet
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30 April 2013
It seems that client choice is following the path of so much else in the criminal legal system as it is threatened with being killed off in the proposed shake up of criminal legal aid. Despite the fact we all believed this was protected in LASPO, it seems the minister allowed himself enough wriggle room [...]
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12 April 2013
Consultations are like buses. There must be one well on its way because two have just arrived at the same time. On Monday, MoJ issued a consultation document which sets out the government’s proposals for further reform of the legal aid system in England and Wales. The expressed aim of the proposals is to deliver [...]
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10 April 2013
Dear Chris, Re: Transforming Legal Aid I read your opening ministerial statement in this lengthy document and had a moment of early confusion. You said: “Unfortunately, over the past decade, the system has lost much of its credibility with the public.” Tweet
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10 April 2013
As recently as February 2013, Justice Minister Damian Green empathised that there was a specific failure to exploit technology in the legal sector. Carl’s strong business orientation is at the forefront of his practice and he particularly relies on technology within the courtroom environment. The notion of Digital Working is something he embraces and he [...]
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10 April 2013
Carl Woolf, partner and solicitor advocate of Meldrum Solicitors in St Albans, discusses the implications of digital working and an intriguing perspective on legal aid criminal defence solicitors. He was also the lucky winner of an Apple iPad Mini via the Upper Case Legal Journal relaunch competition! Carl Woolf, partner and co-founder at one of [...]
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09 April 2013
Last Monday civil legal aid became no longer available for cases involving divorce, child custody, clinical negligence, welfare, employment, immigration, housing, debt, benefit and education. Someone with an odd sense of humour decided that April 1st was an appropriate date. Tweet
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