All Listings articles – Page 6
-
Opinion
Legal aid action suspension
Practitioner groups may have suspended their legal aid boycott, but this ‘goodwill gesture’ should not be mistaken for defeat.
-
Opinion
Help in an emergency
Lawyers should not ignore the immigration crisis – it demands an EU-wide response.
-
Feature
‘Secret’ terror trial ruling
The lord chief justice Lord Thomas said ‘really difficult constitutional issues’ arose in the case of Erol Incedal who was tried for terrorism in a partly secret trial. Watch the broadcast of court, in association with Sky News.
-
Opinion
More than Grexit
Greece has dominated the headlines but other issues - mass surveillance, regulation - abound across Europe.
-
Opinion
Taxi drivers now, lawyers next
How might the controversy surrounding digital taxi service Uber impact on regulation of lawyers?
-
Feature
Oxford grooming gang appeal sentences
The court delivers judgment in an appeal by four members of an Oxford-based grooming gang, who are challenging their life sentences for their part in a paedophile ring that plied girls with drink and drugs before gang-raping and sexually assaulting them. Watch the broadcast, in association with Sky News.
-
Profile
Tribute: Roderick O’Driscoll, ADR pioneer
Rod O’Driscoll, a leading commercial and construction lawyer with a passionate interest in alternative dispute resolution, died on 10 May. Blair Gulland, chairman of Gullands, pays tribute.
-
Opinion
The Charlie and Lola election campaign
Political parties seem to be burying legal issues in the run-up to this May’s poll.
-
Feature
Legal aid tenders judgment
The Court of Appeal delivers its verdict on a challenge by the Law Society and practitioner group to the lord chancellor’s criminal legal aid reforms.
-
Opinion
Client accounts – French connection
Regulators are looking across the channel for ideas on handling client money. But France treats its lawyers like grown-ups.
-
Feature
Criminal legal aid challenge
The Law Society, London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association and the Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association challenge the lord chancellor’s criminal legal aid reforms.
-
Feature
Permission for appeal granted over criminal legal aid reforms
Groups apply for permission to appeal a High Court decision that rejected their challenge to the lord chancellor’s reforms of the way duty solicitors are provided to those accused of a crime.
-
Feature
‘Mansfield murderer’ Susan Edwards loses appeal
A woman who spun a web of lies for 15 years after she murdered her parents and buried them in their back garden has lost her appeal against her 25-year minimum sentence. Watch the broadcast, in association with Sky News.
-
News
Summit: actor calls on delegates to support charity
Oscar-nominated actor Carey Mulligan closed the opening session of the Global Law Summit.
-
News
Summit: justice system has duty to break poverty cycle, says US attorney general
Eric Holder recalls Kennedys setting out to bend the arc of history.
-
News
Summit: Magna Carta? Hywel Dda was there first, says Wales
10th-century Welsh king codified traditional rights and duties.
-
Feature
Ex-Gatwick community officer who conned passengers appeals sentence
Former Gatwick Airport police community support officer Alexis Scott appeals her six-and-a-half year sentence for theft. She was jailed last September for stealing £13,500 from passengers by telling them they were taking too much money out of the country.