All Courts business articles – Page 7
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OpinionLetters roundup
Navigating SLAPPs and stress testing jury curbs: your letters to the editor.
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NewsNo date in the diary for non-judges to hear asylum appeals
New body of professional adjudicators announced last summer to clear backlog of appeals.
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FeatureCriminal trial services: Slowly does it
Government claims that outsourced criminal justice services are working well are routinely greeted with scepticism by frontline lawyers. Eduardo Reyes investigates.
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NewsUnclaimed £3.7m from class action to fund free legal advice
Access to Justice Foundation establishes new grants programme to redistribute unclaimed damages to frontline advice organisations.
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NewsSenior president of tribunals warns of increased abuse towards judges
Lord Justice Dingemans also reveals a potential date for the Home Office’s plans for a body of assessors in asylum appeals.
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OpinionSomething doesn't add up
A juddering dissonance persists between the MoJ’s positive assessment of criminal justice services and the way those services are experienced by those on the frontline.
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NewsIn depth: MPs grill Sackman over contradictory messages on jury trial curbs
Courts minister took a buffeting from the Commons justice committee over whether the reforms will apply retrospectively. MPs also want to see the modelling.
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NewsHome secretary insists non-judges in asylum appeals will be independent
Home secretary says First-Tier tribunal cannot sustainably manage scale and nature of current caseload.
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NewsJury curbs could apply to cases awaiting trial, minister tells MPs
Sarah Sackman says some cases currently in the system could be heard by a judge in the 'swift court'.
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NewsSackman faces MPs amid rumours jury curbs will be 'watered down'
Officials reportedly revisiting proposals for 'swift courts' and magistrates sitting alongside judge to hear cases.
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NewsPut your trust in juries – not Lammy
Abolishing juries will result in another crack in the social fabric.
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OpinionLetters roundup
A support network for solicitors, Friday afternoon tactics, toxic rhetoric and the value of juries: your letters to the editor.
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NewsMinister admits jury trials would be curbed regardless of courts crisis
MPs call out comment by courts minister Sackman during fiery debate on jury reforms.
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OpinionCould we learn from Toronto’s £500m courthouse?
As David Lammy heads to Toronto to witness court reforms that introduced judge-only trials, a chance to revisit John Hyde’s trip to the Ontario Court of Justice last autumn.
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NewsNew backlog record renews conflict on jury curbs
Law Society says justice secretary David Lammy's solution merely transfers problem from one court to another.
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News'We cannot shirk reform': Lammy refuses to budge on jury trials
Lord chancellor defends Leveson review and says Crown court backlog will exceed 100,000 by the time of the next election without reform.
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NewsMPs demand evidence behind Lammy's jury plan
Ministry of Justice says impact assessment will be published when the legislation is introduced in parliament.
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OpinionJury reforms ‘not just crisis management’
Courts minister Sarah Sackman MP says it is 'also about fundamental modernisation of our criminal justice system from top to bottom.'
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OpinionLast rites for more rights
As I predicted last week, David Lammy’s jury curbs turned out not to be quite as draconian as the draft plans leaked to The Times indicated they would be. An old political ruse was surely in play.