Dr Jon Robins

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).

“Bombed—lost everything”. That was how one London Citizens Advice bureau memorably recorded the nature of the legal problems for the newly dispossessed “streams” of clients approaching the nascent service. War was declared on 3 September 1939 and the first bureau opened its doors the next day.

The government should act to resolve iniquities at the heart of the inquest system, says Jon Robins

The government should act to resolve iniquities at the heart of the inquest system, says Jon Robins

Staff cuts and budgetary constraints could undermine LSC attempts to reinvent itself says Jon Robins