All Letters articles – Page 46

  • Opinion

    Justice: Orwell was right

    3 February 2014

    Access to justice will henceforth be solely in the province of the seriously wealthy.

  • Opinion

    Raw deal for interpreter firm

    3 February 2014

    It is the responsibility of the court (both magistrates’ and Crown) to both book and pay for an interpreter.

  • Opinion

    Criminally slow trials

    3 February 2014

    Is money being wasted by the MoJ in the conduct of high-profile criminal trials?

  • Opinion

    Court chaos

    3 February 2014

    Contracting out the justice system is proving to be a disaster.

  • Opinion

    Gift ideas?

    27 January 2014

    My personal bugbear is the use of the word ‘gift’ as a verb.

  • Opinion

    Nothing less than draconian

    27 January 2014

    Many of us were ‘sleep walking’ into Jackson.

  • Opinion

    MoJ disarray

    27 January 2014

    Why not return to the earlier tried and tested system of the police and the courts contacting direct by reference to the national register?

  • Opinion

    Aggression will trump co-operation

    27 January 2014

    In case management the pendulum has swung too far the other way – parties will deliberately make the opponent’s life difficult.

  • Opinion

    Manners: sound advice

    27 January 2014

    Consider what a love letter would sound like read out in court.

  • Opinion

    LPC reality

    20 January 2014

    There is a staggering oversupply of aspiring lawyers.

  • Opinion

    Are origin investigations money well spent?

    20 January 2014

    The clue to my ethnic origin is in the name.

  • Opinion

    Women judges: inconvenient truth

    20 January 2014

    There has been no significant improvement in the proportion of recommendations of women to any of the court judiciary posts.

  • Opinion

    HCtHR: unelected and unaccountable

    20 January 2014

    Human rights court sees itself as an engine of social engineering, but this is properly a matter for elected representatives.

  • Opinion

    City slicker

    20 January 2014

    I was astonished when a City firm found a 35-year-old conveyancing file.

  • Opinion

    Mitchell moaners

    13 January 2014

    I trust that the whingers will come to understand that what they wrongly perceive as manifest injustice will spawn a whole new industry of professional negligence lawyers.

  • Opinion

    Local language

    13 January 2014

    The Ministry of Justice set-up using just one language provider is not working.

  • Opinion

    Grammar gaffes

    13 January 2014

    It is good to know that our profession upholds its standards through quality assurance measures.

  • Opinion

    Frontline facts

    13 January 2014

    Stop ransferring consequences to those practising on the frontline.

  • Opinion

    Costly outcome

    13 January 2014

    Litigators have no realistic alternative to seeking prospective budget variations once the budget is in danger of being exceeded.

  • Opinion

    Claimant rights

    13 January 2014

    I sympathise with the solicitors in Mitchell. But how will individual claimants suffer?