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COURT CHAOS

15 February 2007
Issue: 7260 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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In brief

Low pay and staff shortages could risk bringing about a real collapse in the civil justice system, according to Judge Paul Collins, London’s most senior county court judge. Judge Collins told the BBC this week that serious errors are commonplace and blames the mistakes on cuts in staff numbers and low pay. “Staff in the court service are among the poorest paid of all government departments,” he said. In his court in central London, the number of people employed has been cut from 125 in 1992 to just 80. “We are operating on the margins of effectiveness, and with further cuts looming we run the risk of bringing about a real collapse in the service,” he stressed.
 

Issue: 7260 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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