“Number of military lawyers employed by the Ministry of Defence has risen by nearly half in recent years.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Young Legal Aid Lawyers: Social Mobility (PDF)
Speech by Lady Hale
London South Bank University, 30th October 2013
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“Seven months into the Jackson reforms and litigators see rising costs and no greater access to justice as the main results so far, according to a new poll.”
Litigation Futures, 31st October 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“A ‘startling leap’ in the proportion of lawyers from Oxbridge and professional backgrounds threatens the diversity of the profession, Baroness Hale, Britain’s most senior female judge, warns.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Joshua Rozenberg investigates claims that too many students are training to be lawyers in a time when jobs in the legal profession are scarce.”
BBC Law in Action, 29th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Grania Langdon-Down hears from practitioners who have reshaped their career by moving practice area.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th October 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The latest Alan Milburn report on social mobility has produced a little backslapping in legal circles, primarily because of this judgment: “Professions are undertaking more activity in order to improve but results are mixed: law leads medicine, media, politics and finance.”
Legal Week, 24th October 2013
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Birkenhead Lecture by the Lord Chief Justice, 22/10/2013.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 21st October 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Female lawyers receive just 68 per cent of male lawyers’ total remuneration, while the average bonus given to a woman equals just half that of men’s bonuses, research by recruiter Laurence Simons has revealed.”
The Lawyer, 10th October 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“As the lecturer disarmingly tells us at the outset of the Hamlyn Lectures for 2012, the illustrious procession of Hamlyn lecturers since 1949 (Lord Denning) through to 2011 (Jeremy Waldron) has ‘without exception’ comprised ‘lawyers distinguished by their practice, their academic study or both’. Jack Straw is an exception. Since an LLB at Leeds and two years at the criminal bar, he has made his career in politics – holding glittering ministerial office, throughout the Blair-Brown years, as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, leader of the Commons, and Lord Chancellor.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 7th October 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“More than 400 defence lawyers packed into Camden Town Hall last night to discuss the next steps to fight the Ministry of Justice’s Transforming Legal Aid proposals, reports Gemma Blythe. The Justice: Closing down sale meeting (organised by the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) featured speakers including Greg Powell, past president of the LCCSA; Des Hudson, chief executive of the Law Society; Bill Waddington, chair of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association; Nigel Lithman QC of the Criminal Bar Association; and Carol Storer OBE, director of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.”
LegalVoice, 2nd October 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“Solicitors and consumer representatives have come out on opposite sides of the Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO) proposal to extend its remit to the estimated 130,000 unregulated legal services providers operating in England and Wales.”
Legal Futures, 2nd October 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“Blaming over-zealous police or irresponsible prosecutors for miscarriages of justice makes for a simple and straightforward narrative, writes Daniel Newman. As with most things, though, the reality is more complicated, and defence lawyers may also have a role to play. This being the case, the neat binary opposition we so rely on in criminal justice is somewhat obscured.”
LegalVoice, 26th September 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“Do we need great advocates, asks Geoffrey Bindman QC.”
New Law Journal, 6th September 2013
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
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