Jon Robins

Here’s a disquieting thought as we approach the brave new liberalised legal services world...

Libel lawyers might well take a more nuanced view than some press commentators of the news that Mr Justice Eady is to be replaced as the judge responsible for the Queen’s Bench jury lists which hear the major defamation and privacy cases.

If we are both a nation of animal lovers and a nation of serial litigators, what does it say about our attitude towards risk that we’re happy to fork out £12 a month on an insurance policy to cover our cat’s vet fees but not willing to pay to cover the risk of being sued?

A recent study from the Legal Services Research Centre (LSRC) drawing on 831 interviews of people at Leicester, Hull, Gateshead, Derby and Portsmouth community legal advice centres (CLACs) makes for an interesting read

First, the now familiar statistics: it lasted 12 years, sat for some 434 days, at a total cost of £191m and finally published this month, 38 years after 13 people were shot dead by the British Army on 30 January 1972. So was Lord Saville’s inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday really worth it?

“Nobody takes any notice of the Equal Pay Act”. That’s the resigned view of Sue, a 53-year old home care worker.

Earlier this year Watford employment tribunal awarded Elon de Oliveira £35,700 after a sustained period of racist abuse he suffered at work as a hospital porter at Hammersmith Hospital...

Another review and another nail banged into the coffin of the Legal Services Commission (LSC).