‘Judges making wasted costs orders (WCOs) are to be placed under a duty to report the lawyers involved to their regulator in a bid to make them “consider more carefully the decisions they make in handling a case”, the government has decided.’
Litigation Futures, 6th February 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The Attorney General has warned about the “danger” of regulators micro-managing the legal profession, but also indicated that the government is unlikely to roll back the Clementi reforms that led to the creation of independent regulators.’
Legal Futures, 23rd January 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘This paper is written by representatives of the Council of the Inns of Court and the Advocacy Training Council to assist the ‘Review of the Provision of Independent Criminal Advocacy’ currently being undertaken by Sir Bill Jeffrey at the request of the Secretary of State for Justice.’
The Inner Temple, December 2014
Source: www.innertemple.org.uk
‘The Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) has called for changes to the law on whistleblowing.’
No. 5 Chambers, 4th December 2013
Source: www.no5.com
‘Law is everywhere providing answers to almost everything. Ever larger numbers of students want to be part of the legal mechanisms that control us, regulate us and take over from politicians when politicians sense their own incapability. It is almost a new religion. In this lecture – and in the discussion to follow – some of the issues dealt with in earlier years by Professor Bogdanor (such as in his lectures, Judges or Legislators: Who Should Rule?, The Judges and the Constitution and The Human Rights Act: Cornerstone of a New Constitution) will be reviewed as will the effect of Europe on our law.’
Gresham College, 4th December 2013
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
‘The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP and the Lord Chief Justice for England and Wales the Lord Thomas today [3 December] published a revised judicial protocol and revised guidance on the disclosure of unused material in criminal cases. They have been prepared following the recommendations of Lord Justice Gross in his September 2011 ‘Review of Disclosure in Criminal Proceedings’ and take account of Lord Justice Gross and Lord Justice Treacy’s ‘Further review of disclosure in criminal proceedings: sanctions for disclosure failure’, published in November 2012.’
Attorney General’s Office, 3rd December 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
‘The government may want to hand out criminal legal aid contracts to fewer, bigger firms, but smaller practices with lower overhead costs are arguably in a better position to survive the planned 17.5 per cent cuts, argues David Gilmore.’
Legal Voice, 26th November 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“Number of military lawyers employed by the Ministry of Defence has risen by nearly half in recent years.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Young Legal Aid Lawyers: Social Mobility (PDF)
Speech by Lady Hale
London South Bank University, 30th October 2013
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“Seven months into the Jackson reforms and litigators see rising costs and no greater access to justice as the main results so far, according to a new poll.”
Litigation Futures, 31st October 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“A ‘startling leap’ in the proportion of lawyers from Oxbridge and professional backgrounds threatens the diversity of the profession, Baroness Hale, Britain’s most senior female judge, warns.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Joshua Rozenberg investigates claims that too many students are training to be lawyers in a time when jobs in the legal profession are scarce.”
BBC Law in Action, 29th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Grania Langdon-Down hears from practitioners who have reshaped their career by moving practice area.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th October 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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