Giles Peaker
Banks, limitation dates and Newly Qualified Barristers
I'm not going to weigh in on the details of the case brought by newly qualified barrister Tom Brennan against Nat West, apparently adjourned for a full day's argument on the issue of whether aggravated and exemplary damages are even available, prior to the...
costs outrage
The issues of fees in miner's white finger and respiritory disease claims, following the institution of a compensation scheme, has been rumbling on for some time. All hell seems to have broken loose with the report that Beresfords, a small firm that, via...
Show me the money
My blog is worth $22,581.60. How much is your blog worth? That should see me through about six months as a trainee. £12K! For my erudesence? Pah. I'm cheap but not that cheap. [Thanks to Tim Kevan of The Barrister Blog]
Ring out wild bells
And finally... Nearly Legal has a training contract, and mirable dictu, with a legal aid firm (at least pro tem) and to start shortly. I've come over all Fotherington-Thomas. Hello birds, hello sky. It was about bloody time somebody took a punt on what was...
Multimedia extravaganza and some paranoia
Thanks to Elle, here is the channel 4 news report from Friday 30 March on Legal Aid, incorporating Fisher Meredith solicitors voting no. In case this has short self life on the Channel 4 site, here is a quicktime version (Warning, slow to load). [Now removed...
Messy
A predictably messy aftermath to the great unified contract signing debacle. The LSC extended the deadline to today at the last moment. Why, so that it could pick up some of the hold outs from Friday, expecting them to be thoroughly demoralised by the...
That could have gone better
Oh dear. The LSC claims an 85% sign up rate to the unified contract. Assuming that this is accurate, this seems to me to fall into the hinterland of bad, but not bad enough to stop the roll-out. In fact, it is pretty much the precise point where the LSC can...
Aren't Counsel getting younger?
Thanks to the always interesting Lo-fi librarian, I have discovered that DirectgovKids has solved the concerns of both Pupilblog and Lawyer-2-be. Click for bigger.
And now?
So that's that, then. The Law Society takes advice on a last minute injunction to halt the process, but is advised against it. Partners' arms are twisted. Deadline passes, contracts are signed or not. So we'll stagger, somewhat shellshocked, into next week...
On the brink
Tomorrow, 30 March, is the deadline for signing the Unified Contract, even though the contract itself is actually unfinished. Yesterday, the LSC attempted to turn the screws by sending a letter (PDF) to suppliers which effectively accused the Law Society of...
Conversation -v- Contract
I knew I was tempting fate. I made a comment yesterday on Pupilblogger's post on litigants-in-person. Today came the swift nemesis to my hubris. A day full of new enquries fom what turned out to be l-i-ps. Not that they tell you that at first. Oh no. First...