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Le LSC a la Lanterne (or DCA, or both) continued. Item 1. Fiona Woolf talks sense. Let the heavens shake. It is almost enough to make me apologise for this. Item 2. Other civil firms going public on not signing include: Fisher Meredith and David Grey...
Ken Adams of adamsdrafting.com emailed me the other day. I've enjoyed dipping into his site, even though my area has nothing to do with contract drafting and a relatively small amount of contractual interpretation. I like the overlaying of semantics,...
My, but the emails have been flying around today in the wake of Bindman's public announcement, including Round Robins and emails with lists, admittedly of varying accuracy, of which firms are refusing to sign. Some firms are definitely not signing, but I'm...
I read Lawyer-2-be's comments on diversity and age in relation to entry to the Bar with interest. As regular visitors will know, the problems of mature entrants to the legal profession is something of a (self-interested) hobbyhorse of mine. Pleasing though...
In the face of the 30 March deadline for signing the new unified contract, today the opposition got serious. The Law Society instigated Judicial review proceedings. The Pre-Action protocol letter can be read here (pdf). Bloody well done. The mutterings...
As we await the Law Society's decision on whether to challenge the new legal aid contracts - apparently due this week, as it must be, given that the contracts have to be signed by 30 March - there are interesting mutterings that some civil legal aid sectors...
So far it is a bit short of stone throwing confrontations with riot police, but the current actions of our friends in publicly funded legal aid criminal defence are pretty much unprecendented, at least for lawyers. I hope the demo went well. "What do we...
There is plenty of material that I ought to be writing about, but I'm going to have to pull a Pupilblogger, because I can't talk about it now. So, in the place of anything substantial, interesting or even legal, it is time once more to gaze in awe and...
With all due respect to the striking legal aid Criminal solicitors and the Law Society, this is an impressive bunch of protesting lawyers. A reminder that the struggle between the rule of law and rule by decree is sometimes literally that. I do find myself...
Knowsley Housing Trust v White on suspended possession orders and assured tenants is being heard on 14 March 2007 in the Court of Appeal. I don't know when the judgement will be given.
Corporate Law appears to be having a bit of a crise. I feel for him. As far as I can tell, Corporate doesn't think his blog has been getting the attention/traffic that it should. If that is the case, then I'd agree. There are very few sites in this world...
Just in case anyone had picked up on the nervous tension from the last post, the result was... a reserved judgment. The others side did indeed try to spring something at the last minute, thankfully this was waved away first thing by the Court, limiting their...