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The Guardian reports on a survey by the Association of Lawyers for Children. The results are not surprising to anyone facing a legal aid future (although the survey was done before the LSC decision to terminate the unified contract). One-third of individual...
Good heavens. In an announcement carefully made at 5 pm on 21 December 2007, the Legal Services Commission states that intends to terminate the unified contract. Yes, that civil legal aid unified contract that we mostly signed up to in March/April 2007 and...
Oh frabjious day. After many months ploughing a lonely furrow as the internet`s finest but only housing law blog, I am delighted to welcome another into the world. William Flack of Flack & co, who both comments on and features in posts hereabouts, has...
This story rumbles on, with several features in today's Guardian, here, here, and here. The paper sees fit to pitch it as something of a moral dilemma, before finally plumping for one side. The terms of the 'dilemma' go something like this. Very large...
Thanks to Lex Scholasticus at Reductio ad Absurdum, I have been tagged with another blog meme thing. In a surprising bout of pre-new year generosity, I will both respond and entirely fail to tag anyone else. I am called upon to list 8 things I want to happen...
This year's Blawg Review awards are apparently to be awarded to one Blawg on the basis of nominations from solely those who have hosted or are shortly to host a Blawg Review. Having closely followed the instructions of the anonymous Ed of Blawg Review,...
From The Times, 12 November 1866 The extensive and complicated network of lanes, courts and alleys covering the area bounded east and west by Bell Yard and Clement's Inn, north by Carey Street, and south by the Strand and Fleet Street, lately containing a...
So, Belle de Jure and Lawyer-2-be, although apparently tired of being respectively scandalously homophonic and hyphenated, are back. I somehow thought it was only a matter of time before one or both broke cover. Now conjoined, although thankfully not...
Nearly Legal has a comment piece in the Solicitors Journal. (No subscription needed for the next week). Fame, yes, fame at last. In an anonymous sort of way.
A quick outline of a busy news day... The Court of Appeal says that (some) provisions of the Legal Services Commission's Unified Contract are unlawful, specifically the most sweeping of the unilateral amendment clauses. The judgment is pretty devastating,...
The judgment in Minister for Legal Aid v Main, R (on the application of) [2007] EWCA Civ 1147 might be of limited general applicability, concerning as it does the provision of 'special case' legal aid funding for inquests, but one passage in the judgment...
[Edit. This was originally posted on Friday evening 16/11/07. Not that I'm getting all conspiratorial but it disappeared in the great site downtime and server change... There was also originally an image, which has vanished from the server and apparently was...