26 July 2024
What do lawyers hope for as the Keir Starmer government gets to work? In this week’s NLJ, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC calls for more access to justice while Mary Young sets out a wish list from the legal profession
Bindman praises the government’s ‘immediate action’ on the prison crisis and hails ‘a welcome commitment to continued adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights and to international law more generally’.
Young urges government action to address the PACCAR situation on litigation funding, as promised by the previous administration, as well as on other lawyerly matters in need of legislation.
She writes: ‘Litigation funding may not have made the manifesto cut, but the claims brought by subpostmasters which, eventually, helped expose the colossal miscarriages of justice they suffered, could not have been brought without litigation funding.’
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