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Just as you thought it was safe to go back in the courtroom…

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The snappily titled and easy to read Children Schools and Families Act 2010 has landed on our virtual desks. Not yet in force owing to the impending election (‘What election?’ I hear you say) the Bill made it through ‘wash-up’ and received Royal Assent only moments before Parliament was dissolved, to gasps of relief all [...]

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Lawyers Represented

Posted in stuff, tagged , on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been browsing newspapers and recent judgments this evening (yes, for fun on a Friday night). Lawyers don’t come out of it too well so far: . At the bar we have reports of a £34,000,000 discrimination claim by one barrister against three QCs and a senior clerk. In a story that resembles stereotypical ideas [...]

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Behind Closed Doors – Judicial Shenanigans

Posted in stuff, tagged , , on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Guardian has lost in it’s attempt to secure details of the identities of Judges found guilty of misconduct or who have been reprimanded. I think maybe I’m missing something because my response to this was a bemused ‘hunh?’. . The Information Tribunal making the decision apparently cited the example of a very senior judge who [...]

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House of Lords Judgment: Be More Accomodating

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , , on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was thinking it was about time I posted on a recent legal judgment. And so I was just sitting down to type a post about the case of R (on the application of G) (FC) (Appellant) v London Borough of Southwark (Respondents) [2009] UKHL 26 when I saw that Nearly Legal has beaten me to it. In [...]

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Legal Aid Rich List

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , on May 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Apologies for the delayed reaction but the MOJ published it’s top ten biggest legal aid earners last week (here). I have been distracted by imagining what I might do with hundreds of thousands of pounds in income and write this post as I bump back down to earth, noticing as I pass that my aged debt is [...]

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Not Punny

Posted in stuff, tagged , , on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My husband wants to know if Wall LJ’s Larkin judgment is what they call ‘poetic justice’? (groans) In the words of Basil Brush: Bu-Boom.

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