All Courts business articles – Page 48
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News£500 vouchers for families to resolve disputes away from court
Ministry of Justice unveils £1m scheme to bolster use of mediation.
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News‘Not helpful’ to keep talking about backlog, says justice minister
Lord Wolfson tells MPs that they should be focusing their attention on throughput of work.
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NewsImmigration reforms: courts could be required to consider wasted costs
Home Office unveils proposals to end what it believes are 'last-minute unmeritorious' claims.
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NewsCovid operating hours still on the table, Bar Council told
Radical measures to clear the court backlog are not backed by lord chancellor, says representative body.
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NewsShort films to support 'digitally disadvantaged' with virtual justice
Research team keen to hear from solicitors with experience of attending video hearings.
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NewsLabour calls for extra 33,000 court sitting days
Number of outstanding cases in the Crown court reached nearly 57,000 last month.
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NewsMore courts to offer rapid Covid tests
Leeds Combined Court, Leicester Crown Court, Reading Crown Court and Winchester Combined Court will offer on-site testing from today.
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OpinionMany lawyers prefer remote hearings, and they shouldn’t be muted
Lord chief justice should be explaining why hearings have to be in person, not assuming they must be.
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NewsSociety raises concern over JR proposal on ouster clauses
Chancery Lane says government must remain answerable to the law like the rest of us.
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NewsJR reform: Buckland to 'go further' than Faulks review
Lawyers voice concern that reforms go beyond what Independent Review of Adminstrative Law recommended.
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NewsBuckland announces JR reforms to keep judges away from politics
Independent review found courts were increasingly considering the merits of government decisions.
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NewsNo legal aid for parents fighting to continue baby's life-sustaining treatment
Barrister stepped in to represent mother and father for free after hearing about their plight through hospital's lawyer.
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NewsTop immigration firm ‘abused’ court process with futile JR claims
Duncan Lewis avoids referral to SRA after offering 'profound regret' for conduct of cases.
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NewsLord chief nudges lawyers back to court
'Possible and desirable' to increase attendance at in-person hearings, says Lord Burnett of Maldon.
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NewsOnline court may need only one procedure rule, says Briggs
Supreme Court judge reveals that legislation to set up litigant-in-person-friendly dispute resolution procedure expected this year.
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NewsCircuit judge promises to write monthly to defendant in mental health crisis
Pledge accompanied community order on woman caught carrying a razor blade.
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NewsWork with locals in hunt for Nightingale courts, HMCTS told
Regional officials do not know what is happening in their own areas, justice committee hears.
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NewsCriminal bar calls for 120,000 Crown court sitting days
Association says Ministry of Justice and HM Treasury will agree final budget this week.
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NewsStill crumbling: HMCTS handling 5,000 court repair requests a month
Government spending millions on repairs, but nine out of 10 courts still have outstanding jobs needing attention.
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News‘Sense of how to behave’ at risk, says High Court chancellor
Sir Julian Flaux warns that the informality of remote hearings could undermine court rules and the seriousness of judicial decisions.