All Criminal justice articles – Page 113
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Opinion
End this interpreters farce
There has been a stream of irrefutable evidence about a plummeting in standards ever since the MoJ insisted on the new framework agreement.
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OpinionDefence costs: an elegant solution
Why not use City fines to pay the defence in serious fraud cases?
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NewsMinistry plays down fee protest as judge acts
Government insists solicitor boycott has had ‘minimal’ impact, after a judge issued a note on dealing with unrepresented defendants.
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NewsQueen’s Speech announces new Serious Crimes Bill
Law Society says new offence of ‘knowingly participating’ is unnecessary.
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NewsCrackdown on corrupt lawyers who help criminals
Serious crime bill will create an offence of ‘participation in an organised crime group’ punishable with up to five years in jail.
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Opinion
Let the market be the jury
The public is capable of distinguishing the ‘wheat from the chaff’ – even when it comes to advocacy.
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News
UK will be ‘gangster haven’
Opt-out from justice measures will make UK a sanctuary for crime bosses, says QC.
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OpinionCotton and compromise
The criminal justice system requires a sensible resolution of the VHCC fee cut impasse.
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NewsNews focus: CCBE plenary session
Prosecuting cross-border fraud, UK exceptionalism and the rule of law in Ukraine were among the issues discussed at last month’s plenary session of the CCBE.
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NewsMoJ set to clash with bar over PDS expansion
MoJ spokesman said the lord chancellor is ‘entirely supportive’ of the independent, self-employed bar.
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OpinionPicking at the threads of justice
Op Cotton ruling removes the notion of the independent bar for complex cases, replacing it with an inadequate nationalised public defender.
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NewsCommission calls for review of hate crime
Law Commission proposes extending aggravating features of offending.
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NewsJR proceedings begin over legal aid cuts
The two main criminal solicitor groups launch challenge to the government’s decision to press ahead with reforms.
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News
Money launderers to face up to 14 years in prison
The Sentencing Council has published guidlines for fraud offences, including for the first time money laundering.
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NewsCall the PDS, regulator tells solicitors caught in protest
The SRA has issued guidance to solicitors struggling to find advocates in cases affected by the bar’s refusal to take them.
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NewsCourt of Appeal overturns stay in case hit by bar boycott
The trial against five defendants charged with fraud will continue after the court overturned the stay.
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NewsUK ‘wilfully’ ignorant of EU realities, bar conference hears
Europe-wide reforms were described as ‘utterly pointless’ and ‘an assault on democratic values’.
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OpinionAdvocacy time bomb ticking
Sir Bill Jeffrey is right. The status quo is not an option for criminal advocacy.
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OpinionPDS is a false economy
Why is the government willing to pay more for ‘public’ advocates than it is for the independent bar?