Child Poverty Action Group mounts legal challenge to welfare reform – The Guardian

Posted March 7th, 2011 in benefits, budgets, housing, judicial review, news by sally

“The government is facing a legal challenge to its controversial plans to cap housing benefit payments on the grounds that large areas of the south-east will become off limits to the poor, with lone parents and ethnic minorities ‘disproportionately affected’.”

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The Guardian, 7th March 2011

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Library campaigners mount legal challenges to closures – The Guardian

Posted March 2nd, 2011 in budgets, judicial review, libraries, news by sally

“Pressure is building on culture secretary Jeremy Hunt over library closures, with the mounting of two new legal challenges.”

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The Guardian, 1st March 2011

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Classifying offenders could lead to criminal justice revolution – The Guardian

Posted March 2nd, 2011 in budgets, criminal justice, news, statistics by sally

“Imagine being able to predict which offenders will go on to commit serious crimes. Juliet Rix on a new system that could have a drastic impact on the justice system.”

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The Guardian, 2nd March 2011

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Most senior judge attacks legal aid plans – Daily Telegraph

Posted February 25th, 2011 in budgets, legal aid, news by sally

“Cuts to legal aid will have ‘serious implications for the quality of justice’, the country’s most senior judge warned yesterday in a scathing attack on Kenneth Clarke’s plans.”

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Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2011

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Related link: Q&A: Legal Aid

Library cuts in Somerset and Gloucestershire challenged – BBC News

Posted February 23rd, 2011 in budgets, judicial review, libraries, local government, news by sally

“A High Court challenge is being launched over public library closures.”

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BBC News, 23rd February 2011

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Q&A: Building Schools for the Future court case – The Guardian

Posted February 16th, 2011 in budgets, education, judicial review, news by sally

“Details of the judicial review into the government’s scrapping of the school building programme.”

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The Guardian, 11th February 2011

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Butler-Sloss issues warning over legal aid cuts – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted February 14th, 2011 in budgets, legal aid, news by sally

“The government’s planned legal aid cuts will have a ‘serious adverse long-term effect’ on the justice system, a former president of the family division of the High Court has warned.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 14th February 2011

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

Gove loses court battle over cancelled school building projects – The Guardian

Posted February 14th, 2011 in budgets, education, judicial review, news by sally

“A high court judge has ordered the education secretary, Michael Gove, to reconsider his decision to cancel scores of multimillion-pound school rebuilding projects.”

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The Guardian, 11th February 2011

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Legal aid cuts ‘crude and brutal’ – The Independent

Posted February 14th, 2011 in budgets, legal aid, news by sally

“Proposed cuts to the legal aid budget will cost more than they save and could leave more than half a million people ‘silenced in court’, legal experts have warned.”

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The Independent, 14th February 2011

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Supreme Court independence ‘threatened’ by funding – BBC News

Posted February 9th, 2011 in budgets, news, Supreme Court by sally

“The president of the UK’s Supreme Court has warned that its independence cannot be properly guaranteed because of the way it is funded by the government.”

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BBC News, 9th February 2011

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Fawcett Society loses court challenge to legality of budget – The Guardian

Posted December 7th, 2010 in budgets, equality, news, women by sally

“The Fawcett Society has been refused permission to challenge the legality of the government’s emergency budget.”

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The Guardian, 6th December 2010

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Legal aid lawyers were struggling even before the cuts – The Guardian

Posted December 6th, 2010 in budgets, legal aid, legal profession, news, remuneration by sally

“These are dark days for junior legal aid lawyers. Even before the cuts to the legal aid budget were announced last month, they were struggling to get by on salaries that are among the lowest in the public sector (£16,650 for trainee solicitors and £10,000 for trainee barristers, rising to little more than £25,000 after several years in the job). Now they’re bracing themselves for their practices to be decimated as many of their clients lose eligibility for state funding.”

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The Guardian, 3rd December 2010

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

High court judge to rule if coalition’s budget is biased against women – The Guardian

Posted December 6th, 2010 in budgets, equality, news, women by sally

“A high court challenge aimed at overturning the government’s emergency, summer budget is due to be heard today.”

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The Guardian, 6th December 2010

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George Osborne to be investigated by watchdog over cuts – The Guardian

Posted November 26th, 2010 in budgets, equality, government departments, news, statutory duty by sally

“Equality commission set to launch formal assessment into the Treasury’s conduct prior to last month’s spending review.”

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The Guardian, 26th November 2010

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Legal aid: annotated government proposals for reform – The Guardian

Posted November 17th, 2010 in budgets, legal aid, news by sally

“Legal affairs correspondent, Afua Hirsch, dissects the green paper on legal aid and gives her views on the most important passages. Click on the highlighted paragraphs to read their comments or use the annotations bar at the top of the page to flick through them.”

Proposal for Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales

The Guardian, 17th November 2010

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Appeal court ruling clears way for councils to cut social care services – The Guardian

Posted November 4th, 2010 in budgets, community care, disabled persons, local government, news by sally

“Local councils have been given the green light by the courts to cut social care services to elderly and disabled people previously assessed by law as needing them.”

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The Guardian, 4th November 2010

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Regina (Savva) v Kensington and Chelsea Royal London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted November 4th, 2010 in budgets, community care, disabled persons, law reports, local government by sally

Regina (Savva) v Kensington and Chelsea Royal London Borough Council [2010] EWCA Civ 1209; [2010] WLR (D) 275

“When exercising its duty under s 2 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 to make arrangements to meet an individual’s needs, a local authority was entitled to consider what that individual’s needs were in relative terms as the starting point for calculating the personal budget allocated to meet them, and had to give reasons for its decision.”

WLR Daily, 3rd November 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.

Kenneth Clarke and Lord Judge: a plain-speaking verdict on life after cuts – The Guardian

Posted October 28th, 2010 in budgets, case management, dispute resolution, judiciary, news, time limits by sally

“Lord chancellor and lord chief justice share a talent for bluntness, but who is the most realistic about how the deficit will affect the legal system?”

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The Guardian, 28th October 2010

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The Fawcett Society takes the cuts to court – The Guardian

Posted October 25th, 2010 in budgets, equality, judicial review, news, women by sally

“When feminist campaigners saw a palpable threat to women in the coalition government’s spending plans, with the help of Yvette Cooper’s calculations they launched the first ever legal challenge to the budget.”

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The Guardian, 22nd October 2010

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Top judge Lord Justice Goldring wants to save 34 courts – BBC News

Posted October 22nd, 2010 in budgets, county courts, magistrates, news by sally

“The senior presiding judge for England and Wales has said he cannot back the closure of 18 of the 103 magistrates’ courts earmarked for closure.”

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BBC News, 21st October 2010

Source: www.bbc.co.uk