Legal Aid – some thoughts
If you venture into the legal blogosphere right now you can see many erudite blogs about the Ministry of Justice’s proposed “reforms” of the legal aid system. I’m taking to blogging for the first time...
View ArticleA bit more on the figures
Mr Halloran at Lawtons Solicitors has done some more work on the figures. To help him publicise the work I’m reproducing it in full below. The original can be seen here. The amount spent on criminal...
View ArticleKeeping the truth hidden
Whatever else you might think of them, the Ministry of Justice are pretty good at political spin. All their announcements have been about saving money for the taxpayer. Given that most lawyers are...
View ArticleA letter to Ed Miliband
On Saturday the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition was in our local city of Lincoln, campaigning for his party in the local elections. We thought it would be a pity for the occasion to go...
View ArticleMy letter to my MP
I wrote to my MP, Patrick Mercer OBE MP, some time ago. Yesterday I received what can only be regarded as a standard reply, trotting out all the usual stuff and not dealing with any of the specifics of...
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