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Jonathon Freedland has an eminently sensible opinion piece in the Guardian on why legal aid matters and where Carter is a disaster. The article is clear and impassioned, but also sadly true in suggesting that this is unlikely to be an issue that leads to the...
Ok, so I've had to make an embarrasing addition to this post on the 5 year grace period for pay and holiday bonuses under the age discrimination regs. Pure laziness. No excuse (except I was knackered, overworked, blogging on a combination of wine and tannin...
Prompted by a comment by Anna and my own musings, I've been idly wondering about incremental or seniority based increases in holiday entitlement in relation to age discrimination (and pace Cadman, sex discrimination). Such schemes are fairly common, x years...
On 3rd October, the European Court released its judgement in Cadman v HSE. Few people can have missed this as, for instance, there were large articles in the Guardian and the Times. Moreover, few people can miss that these articles draw deeply divergent...
I was at a conference with a client and Counsel the other day at a certain Lincoln's Inn Fields chambers. The place was heaving with lighting stands, women with clipboards and the kind of unshaven, tool belted man that can only be a rigger. Lo, they were...
The Times Law blog suggests that the incoming age discrimination legislation could result in some bizarre misinterpretations, citing the QCA's frankly strange interpretation of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 as a prior example. This could well be...
Some of those of us metaphorically stripped to the waist at the civil legal aid coalface will be impressed or envious at the fast work of Scott-Moncrieff Harbour & Sinclair, who have decided that it is better to pre-empt the Legal Services Commission's...
I ought to be drafting a brief to Counsel that is needed tomorrow, and I will, I will, but as a distraction activity, it is time for the fall back post of every lazy blogger - a trawl through the search engine keyphrases log. Genuine search click throughs...
Following on from this post, which suggested a strong incompatibility between contemporary art practices and copyright law in terms of the potential failure of copyright to cover some contemporary art, I'd like to take a quick look at the reverse - how...
And just in case one wasn't depressed enough about legal aid... Yikes. I'd missed this in the Observer, as I was out of the country. Thanks to Tessa Shepperson again for picking it up and for her considered post. I share her misgivings about the reported...
While on the topic of legal aid funding, Terminological Inexactitude has a short and blunt judgement on Carter in which I can only concur.
For anyone who gives the demotic simian's whatever, part 2 will be along in a while, possibly next weekend. As might reflections on some strange effects of homelessness law and a couple of very sub John Mortimer anecdotes on Counsel. Sorry. I've been...