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Who Needs a Lawyer Anyway?

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , on February 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Not social workers apparently. At least so says the British Association of Social Workers which offers representation from non-lawyers as a perk of its membership. Barristers (incorrectly referred to by BASW as solicitors) offering their services for free via FRU or the Bar Pro Bono Unit may not have the necessary expertise in social work [...]

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Weebles Wobble But They Don’t Fall Down

Posted in stuff, tagged , , on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I’m used to being kicked discreetly by my solicitor when I say something stupid in court (joke) but I have other distractions at the moment, such as a lack of anywhere to expand my lungs, a foot lodged under my ribs and the constant need that clients and opponents currently have to double check ‘you’re [...]

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Reporting the Reporter

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , , on December 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I have a current bugbear, but don’t get me wrong: I don’t want to add to the mass of negativity surrounding the dread word ‘social worker’. This post really only concerns the cases where the quality of s7 reports prepared by social workers in private proceedings falls far short of the expected standard. Most reports [...]

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Legal Action Group Director Warns of Loss of Skilled Practitioners

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , on March 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Steve Hynes, Director of LAG, talks to CharonQC about the proposed cuts in Legal Aid (amongst other things). Talking about the family bar his view is that the government has “pushed it about as far as they are able to without causing serious damage to the practitioner base”. He talks about his annoyance that Jack Straw [...]

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Barrister in ‘No Duty to Child’ Shock

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , , , , on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One of the first things we are taught in bar school is that our job is to ‘promote and protect fearlessly and by all proper and lawful means the lay client’s best interests and do so without regard to his own interests or to any consequences to himself or to any other person’ (pa 303). Hand [...]

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You can’t have your cake OR eat it…but the cake is the same size as it always was

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , , , on February 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »

It wasn’t a good start. They concluded the presentation ten minutes before the advertised start time meaning that I missed it even though I was early. That was the second session and I had missed the first part entirely as I had been stuck at court on just the kind of case that will be [...]

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