All Criminal justice articles – Page 40
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NewsMoJ working towards mid-March for legal aid response
Gazette understands meeting will take place with criminal bar ahead of practitioners being balloted on action.
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NewsCBA prepares to issue ballot papers on legal aid action
Jo Sidhu QC says barristers and solicitors cannot afford to wait until 2024 for an increase in fees.
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OpinionOur criminal justice system needs major surgery, not a band aid
Recent government initiatives are just more knee-jerk, low-cost solutions to a much bigger problem.
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NewsInspectors tell CPS to 'significantly improve' disclosure
Report reveals assault trial could have been adjourned because initial disclosure was completed eight months late.
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NewsCriminal barristers to be balloted on legal aid action
Dominic Raab signalled last week that he would not rush response on reforms.
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NewsCriminal barristers welcome remote hearings guidance
Lord chief justice says Crown court hearings should be remote ‘where it is lawful and in the interests of justice to do so’.
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NewsCriminal bar awaits decision on legal aid ballot
Practitioner group tells the Gazette ‘the ball remains in the MoJ’s court’, but government says no response before end of March.
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NewsDuty solicitor data lays bare looming crisis
Several English counties have no duty solicitors aged under 35, Law Society research shows.
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News'This is a lie': Criminal bar accuses Raab over legal aid demand
Lord chancellor had said government was bound by public law obligations and strike action would be irresponsible.
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NewsConvicted prosecutor claims CPS colleagues shared confidential files
Scott Ainge appears before tribunal following earlier conviction for searching ex-wife’s partner’s record.
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NewsNo lawyers referred to SRA over collapsed SFO prosecution, MPs told
SFO director Lisa Osofsky denies there is a ‘systemic failure’ in relation to disclosure by the watchdog.
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NewsRushing legal aid reform 'opens us up to legal challenges', claims Raab
Ministers defend timetable for responding to review but say some reforms in short term are 'hypothetically possible'.
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NewsSFO’s disclosure failings to be probed by former High Court judge
Sir David Calvert-Smith will review what went wrong in the SFO’s prosecution of a former Unaoil executive, attorney general announces.
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News'We did not panic': minister hails progress on courts backlog
James Cartlidge MP says government expects to make significant steps during the next financial year.
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NewsA royal out-of-commission
Has the government set a new record for looking at looking in to an issue?
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NewsStill no start date for royal commission
Justice minister tells peers the government is ‘still focused, in due course, [on] having a royal commission on criminal justice’.
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NewsLatest MoJ figures reveal continuing legal aid decline
Dominic Raab has less than a week to commit to funding increase or face potential strike action by the criminal bar.
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NewsCriminal firm’s administration extended as £5.4m debts revealed
Former employees of One Legal had opposed application to extend administration to 2023.