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10 November 2017
Issue: 7769 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Profession
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Meaningful access

Access to justice is back on the agenda, with the Supreme Court’s decision in July on employment tribunal fees and the government’s decision to review LASPO (the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012).

Writing in NLJ this week, David Greene, senior partner at Edwin Coe, says priorities for the review should include redress of the impact of LASPO on the poor and vulnerable, legal aid provision where children are involved, meaningful access in family cases, and reform of means testing and exceptional cases funding.

Issue: 7769 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Fieldfisher—Will Sharp

Fieldfisher—Will Sharp

Fieldfisher boosts structured finance practice with appointment of Will Sharp

gunnercooke—Thomas Bjorn & Peter Rudd-Clarke

gunnercooke—Thomas Bjorn & Peter Rudd-Clarke

gunnercooke grows its life sciences team with new partner hires

Leonard Curtis Legal—Mark Maguire & Kane Jones

Leonard Curtis Legal—Mark Maguire & Kane Jones

Leonard Curtis Legal expands corporate team with twonew appointments

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
An indemnity costs battle with a £20m gap could reopen an important question: what weight should an approved budget carry?
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
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