‘Rules should be updated, judicial training improved and court rooms rejigged to cater for parties with mental health conditions and other vulnerabilities in civil proceedings.’
Law Society's Gazette, 5th September 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The former lord chancellor Chris Grayling “never believed access to social justice” was important while Liz Truss was a “disaster” in the same role, according to a highly revealing memoir by one of the country’s most senior, recently retired judges.’
The Guardian, 21st August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Disciplinary proceedings are not a “criminal/civil hybrid” and tribunals may draw adverse inferences from respondents staying silent, the High Court has made clear.’
Legal Futures, 19th August 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the change in the standard of proof used by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) to the civil standard.’
Legal Futures, 29th July 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has rejected a challenge to the abolition of most oral permission-to-appeal hearings before it.’
Litigation Futures, 26th June 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Concerns over the decision of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) to move from the criminal to the civil standard of proof are “misplaced”, the tribunal’s president has said.’
Legal Futures, 26th June 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Former Lord Chief Justice (LCJ) Lord Judge yesterday defeated government efforts to limit the extent to which future holders of the post will have a veto over the work of the online procedure rule committee (OPRC).’
Legal Futures, 25th June 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The flexible operating hours (FOH) pilots for civil and family courts are to begin on 2 September, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced.’
Litigation Futures, 24th June 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The government has no intention of making court processes exclusively online and so there is no need to give way to demands to guarantee this in primary legislation, peers were told this week.’
Legal Futures, 12th June 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Trends in personal injury claims since LASPO, with damages falling, are an “affront to justice”, the new president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has claimed.’
Litigation Futures, 21st May 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Judges, justice campaigners, academics and others have raised wide-ranging concerns about the government’s ambitious court reform programme in evidence submitted to MPs.’
Legal Futures, 9th April 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Lawyers are wrong to fear capped costs, which could make a “big difference” to the ability of medium-sized companies to litigate, a High Court judge said yesterday.’
Litigation Futures, 20th March 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A high-powered body of experts has called for more detailed evaluations of the government’s ambitious court modernisation programme, and complained about the lack of data on the impact of the reforms.’
Legal Futures, 12th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Last week the government published its long-awaited review into much criticised changes to our legal aid system. It is accompanied by a Legal Support Action Plan that the Law Society says represents a step towards fixing our ailing system, while others have expressed dismay at the uphill battle many still face to access justice.’
Rights Info, 15th February 2019
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘The justice secretary said yesterday that innovation and technology, rather than significant increases in legal aid spending, are the way to improve access to justice.’
Legal Futures, 8th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A Court of Appeal judge has rejected the argument – pressed by a former Lord Chief Justice – that the growth of arbitration to resolve commercial disputes has retarded the development of the common law.’
Litigation Futures, 22nd January 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Speech by Lord Justice Gross: London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association Annual Lecture.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 16th January 2019
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘Speech by Senior President of Tribunals: The Modernisation of Justice.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th December 2018
Source: www.judiciary.gov
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