All Courts business articles – Page 45
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NewsCourt backlog 'may not return to pre-pandemic levels for another year' - Raab
Lord chancellor asked about delays, family law and data in first live interview since taking over justice brief.
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NewsFamily courts deal with soaring volume of work
Latest government statistics show increases in several case types.
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NewsJudge lambasts government lawyers who ignored court rules
Compliance requirements are not 'optional extras', health department is told.
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NewsRaab admits court delays 'unacceptable' as backlog reaches record high
Outstanding cases in the Crown court pass 60,000 for the first time.
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NewsFuel crisis: Judge 'asks for proof' of why counsel can't get to court
Lawyer's request to attend hearing remotely was apparently refused after judge demanded to know how many petrol stations they had visited.
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NewsPetrol crisis fuels concern about lawyers getting to court
Law Society hopes judges will be understanding of any difficulties faced by practitioners and other court users.
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OpinionRaab's late entrance showed the folly of extending court hours
Lord chancellor's swearing-in ceremony should have started at 4pm. It started at 4.25pm.
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NewsSupreme Court dismisses asylum challenge arising from 'unfair' rules
UK's highest court says claimants must show they were treated unfairly in their own case.
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NewsTribunal president vows to bring together ‘disunited judiciary’
Sir Keith Lindblom pushes for the deployment of judges across a variety of jurisdictions.
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NewsOpening pop-up courts in the shadow of a closed one
Fifth Nightingale court opens at conference centre in Monument, just three Tube stops from closed Blackfriars Crown Court.
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NewsVos: Lawyers like remote hearings because they earn more
Master of the Rolls says Zoom hearings have worked but are not a long-term solution.
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NewsJudgment reserved in solicitor-judge disability discrimination case
Having looked at submissions and evidence, tribunal says case merits decision in writing.
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NewsPrince Philip's will to be sealed for 90 years, family court rules after secret hearing
Sir Andrew McFarlane reveals that he is custodian of a safe containing 30 sealed Royal wills.
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OpinionRebuilding a brighter future for civil justice
Civil Justice After Covid: A Change for the Better? | Anthony Reeves
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News'Thank you HMCTS': positive feedback over financial remedies
HM Courts & Tribunals Service highlights progress on work to digitise divorce process.
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NewsSolicitor-judge's disability struggles 'prevented career development'
Zorina Nadine Clarkson Palomares tells tribunal she wanted to sit in other jurisdictions but felt demoralised.
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NewsSolicitor-judge in disability challenge received complaints over delays
Zorina Nadine Clarkson Palomares says dissatisfaction was a result of alleged government failures to provide reasonable adaptions.
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OpinionLetters roundup: 13 September 2021
Family court fees, open justice, and SQE: your letters to the editor.
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NewsSolicitor-judge takes government to court over disability struggles
Zorina Nadine Clarkson Palomares tells employment tribunal of 'stress' of trying to secure reasonable adjustments.