Opinion – Page 49
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MoJ disarray
Why not return to the earlier tried and tested system of the police and the courts contacting direct by reference to the national register?
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Women judges: inconvenient truth
There has been no significant improvement in the proportion of recommendations of women to any of the court judiciary posts.
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HCtHR: unelected and unaccountable
Human rights court sees itself as an engine of social engineering, but this is properly a matter for elected representatives.
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Case management conundrum
Woolf aimed to transfer case management into the hands of the court – an ‘unless’ order is an inadequate remedy.
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Mitchell moaners
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.
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Claimant rights
I sympathise with the solicitors in Mitchell. But how will individual claimants suffer?
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Costly outcome
Litigators have no realistic alternative to seeking prospective budget variations once the budget is in danger of being exceeded.
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Grammar gaffes
It is good to know that our profession upholds its standards through quality assurance measures.
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Local language
The Ministry of Justice set-up using just one language provider is not working.
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Mitchell: costs bombshell
The Mitchell decision will be catastrophic for lawyers working in civil litigation – my firm will have to reassess its future.
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Claimants will suffer
The real issues from Mitchell are whether the sanction was proportionate and whether it is right for the court to adjudge that justice in the individual case should take second place to compliance with the rules.
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Misunderstood Society
James Parry has misunderstood what has been agreed between the Law Society and the Ministry of Justice, and has also misunderstood the relationship between the Society and its members.