Your Letters – Page 39
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Chapter and verse on LiP rights
The disappearance of public law libraries is a severe hindrance to the rapidly increasing number of ‘DIY lawyers’.
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Sign up to London Law Fair
The fair is a way to make the profession more accessible to students from diverse backgrounds – more firms should sign up.
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Abandoned spouses
Under the legal aid cuts regime, financial (ancillary) relief is dead, except for the wealthy.
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Pointless bill
The Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill is a grim and annoying waste of time.
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Curbing mischievous complaints
Time limits and fees could weed out unjustified complaints and ensure they are not used simply as a tactic to avoid payment.
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Coroners’ court disparity
Refusal to allow legal aid for inquests creates an unlevel playing field.
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On the bus to Poland
It is heartening to see such a dynamic legal market in Poland – hopefully our books helped.
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Grayling: abdication of responsibility
The lord chancellor deserves censure for his failure to make a decision on how the discount rate should be set under the Damages Act 1996.
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Sticking to the protocol
There may be a remedy for unnecessary delays in the conveyancing process.
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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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Legal aid cost myths
Amount spent on legal aid across Europe cannot be compared like for like, because our system is different.
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Beware ‘touchy-feely’ justice
What is perceived to be morally right or wrong should not be an acceptable basis for what is legally right or wrong.
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Unendurable online misery
I spent an inordinate amount of time on the SRA’s painfully slow website.
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Bad conveyancing attitude
Delays are caused by increasing enquiries before contract which have no bearing on the quality of title offered.
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SRA roll play
My name was, without notice, removed from the roll and then, six months later, without prior notice, restored to the roll.
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Fighting our local corner
Bedfordshire Law Society is battling against reallocation of criminal work.
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Solicitors seeking an audience
Solicitor-advocates have been around in some capacity or another since the 1970s.