All articles by Catherine Baksi – Page 3
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NewsRetired judge takes helm of legal aid board
Announcement comes 10 months after the Criminal Legal Aid Advisory Board first met.
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FeaturePoverty payback
Solicitors want to help vulnerable people get the advice they need to challenge injustice, reports Catherine Baksi. But worsening poverty is bringing the malign legacy of the ten-year-old LASPO legislation into ever sharper relief.
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ProfileOn a mission
Sorting out crime and justice is one of Keir Starmer’s five ‘missions’ as Labour leader, but shadow lord chancellor Steve Reed won’t commit to pumping in new money. Catherine Baksi spoke to him.
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NewsBar chief caught in crossfire as row erupts over representing fossil fuel companies
Nick Vineall KC defends cab rank rule at church service, as over 100 lawyers - including six KCs - sign declaration that they will refuse to act for companies supporting fossil fuel projects.
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FeatureRape crisis
Stung by the accusation that rape has been ‘decriminalised’, the CPS is striving to expedite cases in the face of acute resource constraints.
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NewsFall in cost of training fails to impress bar students
Wide variation in pass rate across 20 institutions offering new vocational training course.
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FeatureDamning indictments
What does the evolution of international criminal law enforcement portend for the prosecution of alleged war crimes committed in Ukraine? Catherine Baksi reports
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NewsHong Kong activist's London lawyers receive rape and death threats
Pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai faces trial on national security charges but legal team says proceedings are trumped up.
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ProfileWorking in a war zone
The Ukrainian National Bar Association’s vice president talks to Catherine Baksi about running the legal profession on a war footing.
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FeatureCandid camera
How have courts, lawyers and parties adapted to the digital revolution unleashed by the pandemic? Catherine Baksi reports.
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NewsSolicitor jailed for 12 years after private prosecution for fraud
Crown Prosecution Service failed to act despite direction by a High Court judge.
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OpinionPro bono is no substitute for the public purse
Pro bono work must not become normalised, as food banks have been.
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OpinionAll bar one – will solicitors walk out?
So far solicitors, who have largely supported the bar’s strike, have eschewed direct action.
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OpinionLewis must settle with the strikers
Catherine Baksi Brandon Lewis, the newly appointed justice secretary and lord chancellor, must negotiate an end to the criminal bar dispute. The government may not understand why 80% of specialist criminal barristers voted to start an unprecedented, indefinite, all-out strike last week, but it will care about ...
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NewsArson and robbery suspects released after long wait for trials
Another judge joins chorus of disapproval at failings in the criminal justice system.
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NewsJudge blames chronic underfunding as he refuses custody extension
Government ’has had many, many months in which to resolve the current dispute’, recorder of Bristol tells court.