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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...
I've got a trial hearing listed for a full day tomorrow on one of my cases, which has been rumbling on for months due to a whole series of failures by the other side. This is always a nervous moment. Maybe it is my relative inexperience, but from observing...
Not that there isn't a valid discussion to be had, but did the Law Society's Fiona Woolf really have to announce that the Law Society is looking to encourage a discussion about flexible working and job satisfaction in these words? And so, given its...
Not to me, at least not yet, but to 253 housing law LSC contracts between 2000 and 2006 (down from 840 to 587). I'd missed this article in the Gazette, until alerted by Tessa at Landlord Law. The figures make interesting, if dispiriting, reading. I don't...
John Reid, as reported in the Guardian, decrees an ID card based crackdown on access to public services by illegal immigrants, as there is: "an underlying reality that we have not been tough enough in policing access to such services as council housing,...
Local Authority allocation policy, as it applies to those to whom the Authority has accepted a duty to secure accommodation, is still being thrashed out in the Courts. Birmingham City Council is the latest to have their allocation policy found unlawful in R....
Hands up how many readers of the British blawgs had read BabyBarista's blog prior to say four to six weeks ago? No? Me neither. But it has been apparently going since October 06. In a textbook campaign, BabyBarista made himself known though comments to posts...
In retrospect, yesterday might not have been the best day to have been posting about briefless barristers.
I have been having a few discussions lately over whom to instruct for some upcoming hearings in cases I'm looking after. And then, by co-incidence, I read Legal Beagle on the barrister's fear of being briefless. Of course, I realise that barrister's tendency...