All Government & politics articles – Page 205
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NewsFraud trial collapses over legal aid cuts
Six other VHCC cases could also be in jeopardy as fee cuts have left them without trial counsel.
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OpinionFCO needs sanction rethink
Proposals to prevent courts from enforcing contracts will damage the UK.
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Opinion
Child support after aid cuts
If Simon Hughes wants to put children at the heart of the family court system, he should reverse his government’s demolition of legal aid.
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NewsSaatchi’s cancer treatment bill divides opinion
Former lord chief justice Lord Woolf writes in support of medical innovation bill, but concerns are raised across professions.
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OpinionConveyancing and the great address mess
It makes economic sense for address records to be made freely available as a single national resource.
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NewsInsolvency body pleads for Jackson exemption to stay
R3 says research proves small claims against insolvent businesses will be prevented if recoverability abolished.
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NewsLaw Society of Scotland enters CBI referendum storm
Society to protect impartial position on Scottish independence.
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NewsClaimant groups: 85% of injured workers not compensated
Joint APIL/TUC report takes aim at compensation culture ‘myth’.
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NewsCity lawyers hit out at sanctions plan
FCO proposals could damage London’s status as a global legal centre, warns the City of London Law Society.
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NewsCouncils to apply for ABS licence
Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire will focus on public and third sector work.
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NewsMoJ heralds ‘Wi-Fi era’
Bromley Magistrates’ Court is the first magistrates’ court in London and one of the first in the country to be equipped with video presentation technology.
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OpinionA blow against the security state
The annulment of an EU data retention directive has implications for the government – and lawyers.
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NewsLawyers predict fee bonanza if Scots go it alone
Scottish solicitors expect ‘piles of work’ but government legal jobs in England would disappear.
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NewsIndependent Scotland ‘ready to compete with London’
New state would target global arbitration work, while supreme court for Scotland will not be just a ‘naming exercise’.
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NewsLegal aid consultation ‘unlawful’, solicitors claim
Consultees, they say, did not have the opportunity to challenge the assumptions made in a report.
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NewsWhiplash reforms cut insurance bills to five-year low, analysts claim
Premiums have fallen by 7.5% over the last quarter and by around 19% over the course of the year.
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OpinionLocal heroes seek new models
Council legal departments are buzzing with survival strategies in the face of continued cuts.
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NewsSlaughter: regulatory reform can broaden diversity
Labour’s shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter has criticised the profession’s lack of diversity.
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NewsCouncil legal departments ‘could evaporate’ – local government chief
Lawyers in Local Government president says standing still not an option in era of cuts.