Lsc loses jr

More later but the law society has successfully JR’ed the LSC famil legal aid tender process.

Don’t miss the deadline

Don’t forget the deadline for submissions to the Family Justice Review is this Thursday. I am in the slightly embarrassing position of not yet having completed my own submissions, and now being about 20 files deep in reading for all the various hearings and conferences I’m doing this week. I shall be mightily annoyed if [...]

Bonfire of Justice

I’ve been looking through the QUANGO hit list. I have done a rough sieve of (family) justice related appearances on it. Items of particular note in bold. To be abolished: Administrative Justice and Tribunal Council Courts Boards (19 bodies) Crown Court Rule Committee General Social Care Council Legal Services Commission Legal Services Ombudsman Maqistrates’ Court [...]

Solicitors From Hell Feel The Burn

One of the unfortunate solicitors the subject to derogatory comment on Solicitors from Hell has succeeded in securing an interim injunction to prevent publication of the material on the site reports the Telegraph (h/t half of twitter). This appears to be the second defamation related action directed at the site (at least), and I wonder [...]

Law soc JR of LSC adjourned

This just in: JR has been postponed. No time to post properly, off to a meeting, but see press release here on Law Soc website: http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/newsandevents/news/view=newsarticle.law?NEWSID=430620

President Addresses FNF

Lord Justice Wall has recently given a speech to members of Families Need Fathers in which he makes some predictions about the future of the family justice system. You can read a summary here or the full speech here.

No need to thank me…

No doubt entirely as a result of yours truly’s article on the topic (well, alright, some other more important people have had a few choice words to say about it too and maybe they influenced things a teensy bit), the men in black at the MoJ are going to ‘look closely‘ at the transparency provisions [...]

Non-Molestation of Counsel

Its not just the applicant for a non-molestation order who is harassed. Lawyers and other professionals are often subject to abuse, harassment and other upsetting conduct. It’s a feature of the job, and you learn to deal with it, but it can be highly stressful. . It goes further than a disgruntled client taking their [...]

Good Question

Pannone Solicitors act for a number of victims of abuse by a catholic priest. Here they ask why paedophile priests are not defrocked.

Confusion Reigns

For an update on the state of play with reference to the LSC Civil Contract fiasco and the pending JR – see this article in the Guardian. Oh, and here from the Law Society. This is turning into what is technically described a ‘flippin’ bun fight’!