Robin Murray
OpinionFighting fee cuts
The current attacks upon access to justice and victims of crime are an affront. We must unite and fight to help save the system.
OpinionTouting situation is deteriorating
The SRA is dangerously proposing to water down public protection from touting.
OpinionDrive out the solicitor touts
Regulators must abandon their indifferent attitude to touting for business.
OpinionWho are you kidding, Mr Grayling?
The lord chancellor’s criminal legal aid reforms will destroy access to justice. He must think again.
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Criminal legal aid reforms restrict client choice
The government’s consultation paper ‘transforming legal aid’ does affect one transformation. It transforms people into mere economic units by denying them the simple human dignity of choice.
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Police interviewing loophole must be tackled urgently
by Robin Murray, a criminal solicitor and founding partner at Kent firm Robin Murray & Co
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Legal aid lawyers are paying the price for economic disaster
The principal lesson of the financial crash – that markets are not always the best solution for all areas of society – appears lost on Jack Straw (see [2009] Gazette, 12 March, 1). As trillions of pounds are thrown at banks, it seems that legal aid practitioners must pay the ...