All Courts business articles – Page 24
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NewsFormer criminal solicitor gets MoJ legal aid brief
Gareth Johnson given responsibility for criminal courts recovery and criminal legal aid.
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NewsLabour pledges to introduce 'Hillsborough Law'
Solicitor who acted for families during the Hillsborough inquests says legislation would end 'David v Goliath' type battles.
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NewsWitnesses can give evidence by WhatsApp, Court of Appeal rules
WhatsApp ‘capable of being regarded as sufficiently secure’ for Crown court evidence, judge says.
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NewsFew couples applying for joint divorce, HMCTS figures reveal
Landmark reforms introduced ability to issue joint statement that the marriage has irretrievably broken down.
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OpinionDelays in our civil courts have now reached crisis point
Only an immediate increase in funding can reverse the escalating wait for justice.
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NewsLord chancellor postpones meeting with criminal bar chiefs
Revised arrangements announced within the legal sector following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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NewsArson and robbery suspects released after long wait for trials
Another judge joins chorus of disapproval at failings in the criminal justice system.
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NewsNew justice secretary agrees to meet criminal bar
Criminal Bar Association chief Kirsty Brimelow QC hopes 'introductory' meeting will pave the way for negotiations to open.
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News'Substantial positive movement from government' could end bar strike
Justice committee hears evidence from criminal bar chiefs on reasons behind long-running action over legal aid funding.
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NewsCrown courts back to ‘business as normal’, senior judge says
Lady Justice Macur allows challenge to extension of custody time limit.
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NewsCriminal bar demands to meet new justice secretary this week
Kirsty Brimelow QC says Dominic Raab's successor must open negotiations as soon as they enter office.
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NewsBang to rights at Wood Green?
Video appearances by defendants certainly save time and money, but there’s little doubt that they tend to detract from the majesty of in-person proceedings.
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NewsCriminal bar begins 'historic' strike
Barristers escalate action over legal aid funding on day new prime minister is announced.
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NewsMagistrates' court staff to strike for nine days this month
PCS union has also served notice of a second ballot of members over the Common Platform.
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NewsRaab made 'direct request' for striking barristers' names, CBA claims
The MoJ says it is ‘categorically untrue’ that names were requested by Raab or department.
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News‘Warm banks’? Go and watch a trial
Still at the Crown court, Obiter was struck by the amount of spare seating available – especially at what, in days gone by, would have been the press benches.
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NewsAxiom financial adviser faces March 2024 retrial
David Kennedy, 69, denies one count of fraudulent trading in relation to the Axiom Legal Financing Fund.
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OpinionWhen Crown court judges start to look young
The wheels of justice kept turning - just - on day one of the defence barristers’ indefinite walk-out.
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NewsParalegals and postponements: Crown courts muddle through
As the criminal bar’s full-blown strike gets under way, the Gazette reports from the front line at Wood Green and Southwark.
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NewsFlagship civil claims centre to close in merger
Salford Money Claims Centre set to merge with Northampton under HMCTS reform programme.