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[To any non-UK readers arriving from Blawg Review, this is the latest element in the long saga of proposed reforms to legal aid funding in England. The Legal Services Commission funds legal advice and representation in some areas for the poor,...
These are tough times for Criminal practices. There are anecdotal reports of floods of practioners trying to get jobs with the CPS, getting out of the profession, or even (shudder) trying to switch to conveyancing (just in time for Tesco Law to...
I haven't had a chance to look at the judgment in full (YL (by her litigation friend the Official Solicitor) (FC) (Appellant) v. Birmingham City Council and others [2007] UKHL 27), but the House of Lords has today decided 3 to 2 (Lord Bingham and...
Or so says David Pannick QC. Somewhere back in the mists of time, I suggested that Chambers hosting schmoozing parties didn't have much effect on solicitors' choice of barrister, at least in my experience. David Pannick's response to a rather...
Who would have thought that restaurant reviews would turn out to be the vanguard of defamation law? Recent results from the High Court in Belfast and the High Court of New South Wales in Oz suggest a disturbing trend. In February, in Belfast, a...
I caught someone from the National Citizens Advice Bureau on BBC Breakfast this morning, commenting on a CAB report on the large number of people in private rented properties in bad condition who are promptly evicted if they complain or do anything...
For once, Birmingham was on the winning side of an entirely predictable Court of Appeal judgment on homelessness law. Omar -v- Birmingham City Council 2007. (7 June 2007. Times Report. Not yet freely available elsewhere) Birmingham had discharged...
A while ago, I put myself down to write one of the weekly Blawg Reviews, as did Corporate Blawg. I thought no more about it. The Blawg Review is largely US based, that being where there are most Law blogs. What hadn't occurred to me was that...
I'm drafting an application and order for the variation of a suspended possession order and revival of secure tenancy under s.85 Housing Act. If the application is successful, the resulting order will immediately cease to have effect because...
Commenting about anonymity on another blog a few days ago, I realised I hadn't posted anything meriting a digital balaclava for ages. Time to put that right, because I have more spleen to throw at the LSC than ought to be anatomically possible. Not...
Looking back in the archive for an old post, I realise to my astonishment that this blog is one year old. Granted, the years do whip past more rapidly as there are fewer of them left, but blimey, where did that one go? One answer to where that one...
Head of Legal had an interesting post in response to my post on Hodge's outburst (the ramifications of which rumble on, including the BNP noting gratefully that they win whether the ideas become policy or if they are not carried through....