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The Times reports here, but negelcts to link to the actual report of the Constitutional Affairs Committee. Come on old media, get a clue. Anyway, the report comes to the unsurprising conclusion that the reforms as planned present a real risk to access to...
Issued on 20th April - sorry to be a bit slow. Lots of PDFs on the Law Society page here. So we are back to wait and see. But even if the contract has to be reformulated, it won't change the really damaging stuff that the LSC proposes to introduce within the...
I was talking with a friend this weekend, one of the few people who know my secret identity. 'Why', my friend asked me, 'don't you have more about criminal law and practice on the blog?' 'More?', I said, 'I have nothing about Criminal on there'. 'Exactly',...
As regular readers may recall, the limit for disrepair claims to fall into small claims was under review. Proposals were made to raise the current limit of £1000 to £5000. Regular readers will recall that I thought that this was a Bad Thing. According to the...
Thanks to Elle, here is the channel 4 news report from Friday 30 March on Legal Aid, incorporating Fisher Meredith solicitors voting no. In case this has short self life on the Channel 4 site, here is a quicktime version (Warning, slow to load). [Now removed...
A predictably messy aftermath to the great unified contract signing debacle. The LSC extended the deadline to today at the last moment. Why, so that it could pick up some of the hold outs from Friday, expecting them to be thoroughly demoralised by the...
Oh dear. The LSC claims an 85% sign up rate to the unified contract. Assuming that this is accurate, this seems to me to fall into the hinterland of bad, but not bad enough to stop the roll-out. In fact, it is pretty much the precise point where the LSC can...
So that's that, then. The Law Society takes advice on a last minute injunction to halt the process, but is advised against it. Partners' arms are twisted. Deadline passes, contracts are signed or not. So we'll stagger, somewhat shellshocked, into next week...
Tomorrow, 30 March, is the deadline for signing the Unified Contract, even though the contract itself is actually unfinished. Yesterday, the LSC attempted to turn the screws by sending a letter (PDF) to suppliers which effectively accused the Law Society of...
Le LSC a la Lanterne (or DCA, or both) continued. Item 1. Fiona Woolf talks sense. Let the heavens shake. It is almost enough to make me apologise for this. Item 2. Other civil firms going public on not signing include: Fisher Meredith and David Grey...
My, but the emails have been flying around today in the wake of Bindman's public announcement, including Round Robins and emails with lists, admittedly of varying accuracy, of which firms are refusing to sign. Some firms are definitely not signing, but I'm...
In the face of the 30 March deadline for signing the new unified contract, today the opposition got serious. The Law Society instigated Judicial review proceedings. The Pre-Action protocol letter can be read here (pdf). Bloody well done. The mutterings...