All articles by Monidipa Fouzder – Page 179
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NewsCapita hits interpreting target just once in four years
Monopoly provider falls short of performance benchmark yet again as contract nears end.
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NewsLAA begins to deliver bad news over crime contracts
Legal Aid Agency says it received tenders from more than 1,400 organisations.
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NewsLloyds Banking Group follows Barclays' lead in cutting panel numbers
Eight firms land a spot on bank's 'core' panel.
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NewsThinktank sets out £2.6m blueprint for problem-solving criminal courts
Centre for Justice Innovation says its plan for 10 courts is practical and affordable.
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News'It's getting worse and worse': Amnesty highlights casualties of legal aid cuts
Human rights group publishes findings of nine-month review.
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NewsLiberty director urges lawyers to speak out on immigrant detentions
Martha Spurrier threatens to come down on the government 'like a ton of bricks'.
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NewsIn-house lawyers should time-record to show value – ex-FA GC
Former legal chief at the Football Association acknowledges suggestion is controversial.
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NewsNews focus: ECHR comes under Tory fire
Plans to protect service personnel from ‘vexatious’ claims enthused the party conference. But the lord chancellor had little to add to grand rhetoric on prison reform.
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NewsFixed fees popular among lawyers’ clients
Mini-bellwether report states that solicitors, under immense pressure to lower their fees, tend to equate value with price.
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NewsCPS criticised for ‘shocking’ disclosure failure
Crown Prosecution Service says it has agreed to settle Conrad Jones’s civil claim without admission of liability.
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NewsLiP handed 114 pages of legal documents ‘at the door of the court’
Mr Justice Peter Jackson says the Family Division incident is not unusual.
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NewsFormer Stobart chief acquires second criminal legal aid firm
Trevor Howarth says One Legal has completed acquisition of Guney, Clark & Ryan.
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NewsCourts have become a ‘casino’, Conservative conference hears
MP and former deputy London mayor says defendants do not plead guilty because they know witnesses may not turn up.
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NewsJustice minister makes case for ADR
Mediation and arbitration to be ‘first recourse’ in dispute resolution - Sir Oliver Heald QC
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NewsECHR withdrawal ‘will do little to protect troops’, Grieve warns
Dominic Grieve says temporary derogation from European Convention on Human Rights is not a revolutionary step.
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NewsLiz Truss: ‘we can do better’ on legal diversity
It ‘cannot be right’ that only one out of 12 Supreme Court justices is a woman, lord chancellor tells party conference.
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NewsJustice secretary Liz Truss: prison reform ‘urgent’
Lord chancellor calls for new ideas to reduce reoffending and violence against prison staff.
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NewsMay pledges to end ‘industry of vexatious claims’ against forces
Defence secretary Michael Fallon says growing defence budget will be spent on equipment rather than lawyers’ fees.
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NewsBill of rights will eliminate ‘trivial’ claims – Faulks
Former justice minister says whole school of lawyers has been brought up in a rights culture.
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Profile£5m fine for Alton Towers rollercoaster crash company
Alan Fox assumed oversight of the prosecution of Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd following theme park collision.