All articles by Malcolm Fowler – Page 2
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Opinion
Guilty of what?
The reality on the ground is of a threatened rush to judgment driving all before it.
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Opinion
Interpreting: language problem
In retendering for court interpreter provision, the Ministry of Justice appears intent on foisting inferior services upon us once again.
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Opinion
End the revolving door of prison
Incarceration still plays a disproportionate and counterproductive role in our approach to criminal offending.
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Opinion
Court interpreting: lesson in failure
We are told that the outsourced provision of interpreter services is gradually improving, but Capita is marking its own homework.
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Opinion
Distortion of due process
Who could blame the magistracy if it were to resign en masse over an important distortion of due process.
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Opinion
Double taxation confidence trick
It makes no more sense to raise a levy against witnesses or even victims than it does against the offender.
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Opinion
A sense of history over rule of law
Attacks on due process re-emerge and our vigilance is essential.
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Opinion
Forensic science: unsplendid isolation
Robust, independent and properly funded forensic science services are viewed by our government as inconvenient extras.
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Opinion
Terror threat: principled detachment
We must not meekly submit to predictable attempts by those in authority to curtail our rights in response to the Charlie Hebdo atrocity.
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Opinion
No courage on prisons
Successive governments have been in denial over the prison population crisis.
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Opinion
Right signals on justice
Reckless outsourcing of interpreting services, risks dragging us back to the bad old days of miscarriages of justice.
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Opinion
Poor interpretation
It is meaningless to speak airily and arrogantly about savings made when it comes to interpreters. What is the cost to the rule of law?
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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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Opinion
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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Opinion
Misunderstood Society
James Parry has misunderstood what has been agreed between the Law Society and the Ministry of Justice, and has also misunderstood the relationship between the Society and its members.
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Opinion
'Posturing' on victim levy
How right Joshua Rozenberg is to pour scorn on the legerdemain of the Ministry of Justice over levying the victim surcharge. This has been brought into effect irrespective of any of the philosophical underpinning or due process safeguards applying to all other financial sanctions. ‘Looking tough’ in this way is ...
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Opinion
Client choice
No, Mr McCulloch. Manchester set up a voluntary court duty solicitor scheme at about the same time as Southampton. Birmingham came soon afterwards, building in particular on the Manchester template. I know this because I was involved. We then expanded it to include a police station scheme, and all of ...
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News
Grayling’s legal aid ignorance
Now the cat is out of the bag. Chris Grayling told Catherine Baksi in her interview with him: ‘I don’t believe that most people who find themselves in our criminal justice system are great connoisseurs of legal skills…’
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