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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 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,...
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...
the centre cannot hold. Not a good week, all in all. When the legal highlight of the week is some scurrilous story about the DPP and the Criminal Bar Association spokesperson enjoying illict souvlaki together, then we are in trouble. Although two details...
In an adjournment debate on Legal Aid reforms on 11 January 07, the following exchange took place: Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park and Kensington, North) (Lab): The Minister said that 60 per cent. of cases will generate more income, and that is the key point,...
Amidst the boredom, misery and frustration of handling new inquiries, one way of sustaining interest is identifying the theme of the day. There usually is a theme, frequently repeated. Generally, the theme is a single capitalised word, Desperation, for...
Nobody sets aside my default judgements. Oh and costs as well? Thank you. If you ever imagine Nearly Legal as a person, then imagine that homunculous dancing a little dance of triumphant joy, whilst repeatedly slapping the humiliated opponent with an...
I've been to Court a few times over the last week or two, including a several day trial (on which more another time, as there were interesting arguments involved). Across these hearings, there have been some significant concerns raised over witness...
In what would, were all the world a stage, be a rather overdone bit of dramatic irony, the final publication of the LSC's future legal aid funding arrangements took place yesterday, as did the showing of 'Evicted' on BBC1, part of the Beeb's 'No Home'...
I was alternately amused and vaguely saddened by an article in the Law Gazette on the public's continued perception of solicitors as only slightly higher up the ladder of moral evolution than estate agents. As a profession, Which? have found, solicitors are...