‘The whiplash tariff is set to increase by around 15%, the government announced yesterday, reflecting inflation since it was introduced in 2021 and including a ‘buffer’ to take account of predicted inflation until the next review in 2027.’
Legal Futures, 22nd November 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Mansion House speech by the Lady Chief Justice, 22nd October 2024″
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 23rd October 2024
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘Lord chancellor Alex Chalk has lost his Cheltenham parliamentary seat, becoming the first cabinet minister to be defeated on a dramatic general election night.’
Law Society Gazette, 5th July 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The lord chancellor is being taken to the high court over claims that legal aid fees are so low they are preventing lawyers from providing representation for thousands of people who are eligible for it.’
The Guardian, 16th June 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘At the beginning of the year, this blog covered the report from the House of Lords Constitution Committee into the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers, with Conor Casey’s post focusing in particular on the latter. This post aims to ensure that 2023 is bookended by consideration of the issues addressed in the committee’s report – and in the subsequent Lords debate on that report in July – by providing a closer look at the role of the Lord Chancellor.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 19th December 2023
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A judicial review of the lord chancellor’s decision not to raise criminal legal aid fees for solicitors by the minimum 15% recommended by a government-commissioned review will be heard in the weeks leading up to Christmas, the Gazette has learned.’
Law Society's Gazette, 24th July 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The role of Lord Chancellor is “at risk of being downgraded” because the operation of the courts is now “only a very small part” of what the office-holder does, the Lord Chief Justice (LCJ) has warned.’
Legal Futures, 15th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The time may have come for the role of lord chancellor to be looked at again, the lord chief justice said yesterday as he attended the swearing in of the seventh holder of the ancient post in six years.’
Law Society's Gazette, 25th May 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Dominic Raab’s plan for human rights law reform is to get its final coup de grace under lord chancellor Alex Chalk, according to media reports. The Bill of Rights Bill – introduced last summer and then shelved under Liz Truss’s government – is technically still before parliament, awaiting a second reading in the House of Commons. However its future has been in doubt despite Raab’s return to office under Rishi Sunak.’
Law Society's Gazette, May 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Victims of domestic abuse are still being cross-examined by alleged perpetrators in the family courts despite the “appalling practice” being banned by the Domestic Abuse Act, women’s charities and solicitors have told the lord chancellor.
Law Society's Gazette, 12th February 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Attorney General and Solicitor General are the UK government’s principal legal advisors. Known collectively as the Law Officers, the origins of these ancient constitutional officers date back to the 13th Century. Historically, the Law Officers were leading barristers who acted as the Crown’s personal lawyers, fiercely representing their interests in legal proceedings. As political power passed from the Crown to the Prime Minister and their Cabinet, the Law Officers eventually became salaried ministers. Appointed and removed by the Crown on the advice of the Prime Minister, Law Officers today are typically qualified lawyers with experience in practice who are also political figures; as members of one of the Houses of Parliament, a member of government, and senior member of the governing political party.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 31st January 2023
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Lawyers have reacted with scepticism at the suggestion that Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab wants to “extend” higher rights of audience to more criminal defence solicitors.’
Legal Futures, 25th August 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The “high number of instances” in which the Supreme Court has reversed its position on the law and adopted approaches more favourable to the executive has created “the troubling appearance (even if it is only an appearance) of the politicisation of the judiciary”, MPs have warned.’
Legal Futures, 9th June 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has dismissed a judicial review brought against the lord chancellor over immigration detainees’ access to justice.’
Law Society's Gazette, 13th January 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Justice secretary Dominic Raab is “in the market for something quite drastic and bold” to reduce the number of private law family cases in the courts, he said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 1st December 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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