“The attorney general is to intervene in the controversy over cuts to family justice, according to the Times. Dominic Grieve is to tell Ken Clarke that the lord chancellor’s proposals would clog up the courts with unrepresented litigants.”
The Guardian, 28th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General, is to raise concerns about cuts in legal aid with the Cabinet.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The House of Commons’ justice committee, chaired by Sir Alan Beith MP, predicts an increasing number of litigants in person by reason of the government’s curtailment of legal aid. We are told courts must make ‘adjustments’ to cope with this influx ‘in what are often emotionally charged cases’.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 18th August 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Proposed changes to legal aid will remove whole areas from the scheme, leaving many people little choice but to go it alone.”
The Guardian, 6th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Cuts on this scale demand co-ordinated response in law education, guidance and resources, or the system won’t work.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Victims of sexual abuse are in danger of being cross-examined in court by their tormentors unless the government makes legal aid available in such cases, according to a report by the Commons’ justice select committee.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has today warned that access to justice will be systematically deprived as the Government published the response to its legal aid consultation.”
The Bar Council, 21st June 2011
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The number of people who represent themselves in the civil courts – because they cannot afford a lawyer and fall outside the limits that are set for legal aid funding – is about to rise because of government funding cuts, leaving courts braced for a growing number of vulnerable people fighting their own, often chaotic, cases.”
The Guardian, 6th June 2011
Sourse: www.guardian.co.uk
“Legal aid changes in England and Wales could mean hundreds of thousands more people representing themselves in court, judges have warned. So how exactly do you become an amateur lawyer?”
BBC News, 28th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Courts could grind to a standstill as hundreds of thousands of people represent themselves in legal cases, senior judges have warned.”
The Guardian, 24th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government’s ‘crude and brutal’ legal aid cuts will trigger a surge in ‘DIY litigants’ that risks ‘gridlock’ in the courts, the Bar Council has warned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th February 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Royal Court of Justice’s Personal Support Unit (PSU) today (11 February) said that Heather Mills should have sought its assistance in relation to her divorce from former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney.”
The Lawyer, 11th February 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A lawyer who acts for himself has a fool for a client, according to the old saw. If you have no legal qualifications whatsoever, logic suggests that representing yourself in court is even more foolhardy – especially when tens of millions of pounds are at stake. Yet that is what Heather Mills will do today when she steps into the ring at the Royal Courts of Justice in London to confront Paul McCartney’s high-priced, expert legal team. Having parted company with her legal advisers, who hold her IOU for at least £1.5m in costs, she is resolved to fight her own corner from now on in the battle for a share of the ex-Beatle’s fortune.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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