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Despite having been thoroughly up for it, one of the side effects of my new found traineeship-ness is that I can't go to the UK Legal Blawg Conference, organised by Geeklawyer and Ruthie, on 18th May as I'm being inescapably trained. It looks like a good and...
An eminently sensible House of Lords decision today in Birmingham CC -v- Walker [2007] UKHL 22, maintaining the sensible Court of Appeal decision ([2006] 1 WLR 2641). At issue was whether a transmission or change of a tenancy in one of the forms set out in...
The Constitutional Affairs committee report seems to have galvanised opposition to the reforms, even if met with a profound silence from the LSC/MoJ. The Access to Justice Alliance plans a week of action for next week, including demonstrations outside...
The Court of Appeal judgment in Riverside suggested that if rent increases hadn't been levied pretty much exactly as per any provision in the tenancy agreement, those increases were invalid. Riverside had levied rent increases later than the date specified...
... to Oliver Heald MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. Four posts ago, I wrote a distinctly sceptical response to a comment from Oliver Heald on my post about the report of the Consitutional Affairs Committee on the legal aid reforms....
Quite an interesting piece on Lawcareers net on 30+ entrants. The piece naturally holds up a couple of exceptions as examplars, while the individuals concerned rightly note the difficulties, but overall, if one discounts a certain amount of positivity, this...
To the DCA, now part of the thoroughly Orwellian overtoned, or is that Pétain-ist Ministry of Justice (at justice.gov.uk, no less). I don't, in principle, object to the partition of the Home Office, but that was worryingly quick. Either the assorted...
How did I spend the bank holiday? A new wordpress theme (self-modified K2), new layout and some very shiny additional toys. Try, for instance, the search box at the top right. Oh yes - direct page update ajaxy goodness. Likewise try the archive page (via the...
The release of the final report of the Parliamentary Consitutional Affairs committee on the DCA/LSC proposed changes to legal aid funding was, I thought, an important moment in the wrestle over the future of legal aid. So I posted about it. Imagine my...
Given today and no surprises. The upshot is that assured tenants and secure tenants are in exactly the same position in regard to suspended possession orders and that s.9 Housing Act 1989 and s.82 Housing Act 1985 have the same effect despite the difference...
The Times reports here, but negelcts to link to the actual report of the Constitutional Affairs Committee. Come on old media, get a clue. Anyway, the report comes to the unsurprising conclusion that the reforms as planned present a real risk to access to...
So noted in passing: Everybody's favourite still wet behind the ears barrister, Tom Brennan, has had the full day of argument on the validity of his claim and the matter has apparently been adjourned. Of course, the BBC don't tell us whether Mr Brennan was...