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26 May 2023
Issue: 8026 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Rule of law , Legal services
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NLJ this week: A decade of LASPO devastation

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Ten years after LASPO—what’s the damage? In his column in this week’s NLJ, Jon Robins, vice chair of the Legal Action Group, assesses the state of access to justice in England and Wales, and finds it wanting. 

This is particularly true for Wales, where the whole of Wales apart from the very south and one practitioner in the north is ‘now devoid of publicly-funded help’.

Robins tracks the impact of the cuts, which have been devastating; driving legal aid lawyers out of the sector and leaving large gaps in provision where people with a clear need are simply unable to obtain legal advice, losing homes or employment or suffering some other injustice as a result. 

Read Robins' assessment in full here.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Browne Jacobson—Vicky Tomlinson

Browne Jacobson—Vicky Tomlinson

Browne Jacobson appoints Vicky Tomlinson as Head of Independent Health and Care

DWF—five appointments

DWF—five appointments

DWF further strengthens major injury and casualty offering with new partner and four directors from DAC Beachcroft

Switalskis—Laura Ornsby

Switalskis—Laura Ornsby

Switalskis strengthens Grimsby child care team

NEWS
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’

Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application

Consumer credit law is heading for its biggest shake-up in 50 years, with the Consumer Credit Act 1974 set to yield much of its detailed statutory machinery to FCA rules
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
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