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Bach’s big idea Premium Content

Jon Robins welcomes Lord Bach’s proposal to put legal advice on a par with the right to free healthcare & education

28 September 2017 / Dr Jon Robins
Bach’s big idea welcome

Commission urges all parties to support a Right to Justice Act

28 September 2017
Time to level out justice Premium Content

Legal aid & the provision of legal services to the public need to be restored & expanded, says Geoffrey Bindman

22 September 2017 / Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC
Bach backs ‘right to justice’ law
22 September 2017
No scrutiny as legal aid system declines
17 August 2017
Justice denied revisited (Pt 2) Premium Content

Can Bob fix it? Steve Hynes hopes the chairman of the Justice Select Committee can halt the catastrophic decline in civil legal aid

11 August 2017 / Steve Hynes
Law centre support post Grenfell: too little, too late? Premium Content

The profession’s spontaneous response to Grenfell should be applauded, but demonstrates the dire state of the Law Centres Network, says Jon Robins

27 July 2017 / Dr Jon Robins
LASPO: a legal aid barrier & false economy
07 July 2017
Lessons from Hillsborough Premium Content

Institutional defensiveness plays no part in campaigns for justice, as Jon Robins reports

07 July 2017 / Dr Jon Robins
Justice denied revisited Premium Content

No other public service has suffered the same level of cuts as civil legal aid. Enough is enough, says Steve Hynes

07 July 2017 / Steve Hynes
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NLJ this week: 40 years on, has PACE lost its edge?
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 transformed criminal justice. Writing in NLJ this week, Ed Cape of UWE and Matthew Hardcastle and Sandra Paul of Kingsley Napley trace its ‘seismic impact’
NLJ this week: Stress-testing the City
Operational resilience is no longer optional. Writing in NLJ this week, Emma Radmore and Michael Lewis of Womble Bond Dickinson explain how UK regulators expect firms to identify ‘important business services’ that could cause ‘intolerable levels of harm’ if disrupted
NLJ this week: How sure is ‘sure’ enough?
Criminal juries may be convicting—or acquitting—on a misunderstanding. Writing in NLJ this week Paul McKeown, Adrian Keane and Sally Stares of The City Law School and LSE report troubling survey findings on the meaning of ‘sure’
NLJ this week: A deferred prosecution reprieve
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has narrowly preserved a key weapon in its anti-corruption arsenal. In this week's NLJ, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers examines Guralp Systems Ltd v SFO, in which the High Court ruled that a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) remained in force despite the company’s failure to disgorge £2m by the stated deadline
NLJ this week: Mandelson, Epstein & the court of popular opinion
As the drip-feed of Epstein disclosures fuels ‘collateral damage’, the rush to cry misconduct in public office may be premature. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke of Hill Dickinson warns that the offence is no catch-all for political embarrassment. It demands a ‘grave departure’ from proper standards, an ‘abuse of the public’s trust’ and conduct ‘sufficiently serious to warrant criminal punishment’
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