My charity of the month for June is the Law Centres Federation, which may not be an organisation you have ever heard of. However no doubt you will have heard of Law Centres. Some of you may have used one. The Law Centres Federation is the organisation which supports and promotes them.
Law Centres are set [...]
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The Law Centres Federation – Charity of the month (June)
Housing law reform and legal aid
There have been a lot of announcements recently from the government about housing law reform, and what they intend to do in the private rented sector. Whether any of these proposals will actually come to pass is not certain. However I (along with many others) am concerned about the approach taken by this government, both [...]
Legal Services Commission is arrogant and devious says former supervising solicitor
Although it is not directly related to housing law, I feel I ought to draw readers attention to an excellent comment in the Law Society Gazette from Michael Burdett who previously helped the Legal Services Commission (LSC) to set up the CDS (i.e. Criminal Defence Service) direct scheme.
As someone who has worked with the LSC [...]
Justice, what justice?
I was very concerned to read in the Law Society Gazette today that if the proposed reforms to legal aid go ahead, it will lead to the ‘immediate dismantlement’ of specialist civil liberty legal teams in some firms. This is because cases dealt with by specialist providers tend to be more complex and time-consuming [...]
Or what?
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 [...]
Lawyers (not) in the news
There was a big lawyers demo against the legal aid ‘reforms’ at Parliament today, but so far as the early evening news was concerned it might just as well not have happened…
As we work from home we are able to watch the news at lunch time. I was encouraged to see a rather good [...]
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More bonkers Legal Services Commission rules
I had a conversation recently with a worker at a legal ‘not for profit’ organisation (who wishes to remain anonymous) who is in despair about their Housing Court Desk Duty Scheme. She had been using student volunteers in addition to the qualified helpers. The student volunteers were all law students from a local [...]
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