Having been impressed by seeing Gillian Tett on Bremner Bird and Fortune a while back, and being curious as to the cause of the recent global financial crisis, I recently bought her book, Fool’s Gold. Despite the book being mainly about the financial markets, a subject which would normally have my eyes glazing over within…
The government published a consultation paper yesterday in response to the recent Rugg Report and the other various reports that have been published over the past few years. Supporters of the Law Commissions long project and reports, will be pleased to see that this is acknowledged and referred to in the response which confirms that…
I have already mentioned in previous posts that the Law Commission are undertaking a massive review of housing law and practice. This started with their Renting Homes project, now completed, and continued with their project on Proportionate Dispute Resolution. The final stage is the project on Encouraging Responsible Letting. Both the dispute resolution and the…
Of course it could all be part of a plan. “Getting a bit expensive to pay all those solicitors. Why not make it really difficult for them. Death of a thousand cuts. No-one will believe them when they complain, no voters will anyway. They are just whinging solicitors wanting more gravy. Then when there are…
Looking at the Law Commission’s web-site recently (as you do) I noticed that they had published the text of a recent lecture (20/02/05) – Law Reform and Human Rights – Scarman’s Great Legacy, by the Hon Justice Kirby (an Australian Judge). So in rash moment I downloaded it and printed it out. It was most…
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