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A judgment too far? Premium Content

The court’s recent judgment on legal aid represents a high-water mark of judicial intervention, writes Graham Zellick KC

08 March 2024 / Dr Graham Zellick CBE KC FAcSS
IPP & joint enterprise: left to languish? Premium Content

Jon Robins on why we need more politicians willing to support unfashionable causes

08 March 2024 / Dr Jon Robins
NLJ this week: Is the Law Society’s win on legal aid an ‘unfortunate precedent’?

The Law Society’s judicial review win against the Lord Chancellor on criminal legal aid has left Professor Graham Zellick CBE KC ‘uncomfortable’, he writes in this week’s NLJ

08 March 2024
Judicial review re legal aid rates underway
The High Court was due to hear a judicial review this week brought by the Law Society against the Lord Chancellor’s decision not to increase criminal defence solicitors’ legal aid rates by 15%
13 December 2023
Legal aid on the Day of the Dead Premium Content
Roger Smith casts his eye over the options to meet unmet legal need & finds some chinks of light
17 November 2023 / Roger Smith
NLJ this week: Legal regulators & the evergreen issue of unmet legal need
Roger Smith reports back from a Legal Services Consumer Panel conference on unmet legal need, in this week’s NLJ
17 November 2023
Restoring early advice funding for family cases: the key to boosting mediation & tackling delays
Solicitors have urged ministers to restore legal aid funding for early advice in family cases in order to boost mediation take-up and reduce backlogs and delays in the family courts
25 October 2023
Voice your thoughts through the civil legal aid review survey
Legal aid practitioners have been asked to share their views on the Review of Civil Legal Aid, via an independent online survey commissioned by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
27 September 2023
Perilous state of civil legal aid
An investment of £11.3m in early legal advice providers is needed urgently, the Law Society has warned.
29 August 2023
Housing law scheme to prevent eviction
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has set up a scheme to provide free legal advice to families facing eviction or repossession
09 August 2023
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NLJ this week: AI wake-up call for law firms
A High Court ruling has sent a jolt through the legal profession after a newly qualified solicitor used an internal AI tool to produce court correspondence containing a fabricated legal citation
NLJ this week: Court of Appeal redraws the consent boundary
A significant data privacy ruling has clarified what counts as valid consent under UK data protection law
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Executors may be overlooking billions of pounds in estate assets hidden in forgotten investments and misplaced share certificates
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Britain’s booming non-surgical cosmetics market is operating in what some critics describe as a regulatory ‘Wild West’
NLJ this week: Court battles grow over family visits in care settings
Family contact disputes are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of Court of Protection litigation
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