All Letters articles – Page 47
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Opinion
Aggression will trump co-operation
In case management the pendulum has swung too far the other way – parties will deliberately make the opponent’s life difficult.
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MoJ disarray
Why not return to the earlier tried and tested system of the police and the courts contacting direct by reference to the national register?
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HCtHR: unelected and unaccountable
Human rights court sees itself as an engine of social engineering, but this is properly a matter for elected representatives.
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Women judges: inconvenient truth
There has been no significant improvement in the proportion of recommendations of women to any of the court judiciary posts.
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Case management conundrum
Woolf aimed to transfer case management into the hands of the court – an ‘unless’ order is an inadequate remedy.
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Opinion
Claimant rights
I sympathise with the solicitors in Mitchell. But how will individual claimants suffer?
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Costly outcome
Litigators have no realistic alternative to seeking prospective budget variations once the budget is in danger of being exceeded.
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Grammar gaffes
It is good to know that our profession upholds its standards through quality assurance measures.
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Local language
The Ministry of Justice set-up using just one language provider is not working.
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Mitchell moaners
I trust that the whingers will come to understand that what they wrongly perceive as manifest injustice will spawn a whole new industry of professional negligence lawyers.
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Legal aid: no defence
It is nonsense to suggest that we should be content with the ‘best of a bad job’.
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Bad manners in law
I am astounded by the lack of manners shown by many in the legal profession.