All Government & politics articles – Page 37
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NewsCivil legal aid review: Society hands MoJ blueprint to save fragile sector
Chancery Lane urges government to inject £11.3m into fees while longer-term work is carried out.
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News'Why would Wales want to leave?' Minister rules out devolution of justice
Ministry of Justice pressed on devolution after independent commission said Wales will always be a low priority for Westminster.
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NewsWindrush compensation claimant denied legal aid heads to High Court
Judicial review and academic report renew spotlight on access to legal advice and representation.
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NewsGLD delivers blueprint for lawyer of the future
Government Legal Department pledges lawyers will be able to perform ‘virtually any role [...] at any level’ from any of its UK-wide locations.
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NewsSolicitor-apprenticeship numbers 'promising', says education minister
Government figures reveal that at least 1,653 people have gone down the alternative route to qualifying as a solicitor.
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News'Unacceptable in its entirety': Nigerian lawyers to fight UK trade deal
Nigerian Bar Association 'will not allow any incursion into our legal space', president says following announcement of Enhanced Trade and Investment Partnership.
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NewsMoJ spending £20m on northern court repairs
Millions being spent replacing roofs, heating systems, pipes, windows, cladding and lifts.
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NewsLawyers 'feel morally obliged' to do loss-making housing work
Independent research commissioned by the Law Society will be submitted to government's civil legal aid review.
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NewsMPs to grill MoJ officials on damning legal aid report
Public accounts committee seeks evidence from practitioners before questioning MoJ permanent secretary and LAA chief executive.
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OpinionCompassion on the ration
This week’s Gazette carries an exposé of what happens when the tattered compact between state and citizen starts to break down completely.
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Feature'Left in the lurch' in Liverpool
The city’s housing and homelessness crisis is not just a consequence of austerity. Government at both local and national level is failing in its legal duties to vulnerable people, reports Eduardo Reyes.
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NewsSolicitors on 24-hour police station rota raise health and safety concerns
Legal Aid Agency is conducting snap consultation on dividing 24-hour rota into two 12-hour shifts.
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NewsRoughed up justice
Former MP Rory Stewart voices some forthright views on HMCTS’s reform programme.
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NewsLAA requests status update on 17,000 'inactive' cases
Legal Aid Agency says review not designed to work out how much money is owed but it will help predict future expenditure.
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NewsCovid legislation allowing video-witnessed wills lapses
Law Society says future digital wills process must contain appropriate safeguards against the risk of fraud and undue influence.
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NewsPopular Conservatives: Rees-Mogg attacks Lady Hale and calls for neutering of Supreme Court
Former Supreme Court president ‘flouted the constitution’ by voting against Rwanda Bill, says Tory MP.
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OpinionWhat the ICJ ‘genocide’ ruling means for Israel
The ICJ president Joan Donoghue must have tried hard to reach agreement on South Africa’s claim against Israel under the Genocide Convention of 1948.