Your Letters – Page 47
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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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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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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: costs bombshell
The Mitchell decision will be catastrophic for lawyers working in civil litigation – my firm will have to reassess its future.
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Claimants will suffer
The real issues from Mitchell are whether the sanction was proportionate and whether it is right for the court to adjudge that justice in the individual case should take second place to compliance with the rules.
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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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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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Solicitor pay dismay
The recent How To article may have been helpful to law firm owners but it is likely to have been viewed with dismay by some solicitors.
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Bad manners in law
I am astounded by the lack of manners shown by many in the legal profession.
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Legal aid: what’s your alternative?
Chancery Lane is right to want to engage with the government rather than man the barricades and scream defiance.
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Law Society is out of touch
What most solicitors do not get is why the Society is so chummy with Grayling.
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Leadership have done their best
Chancery Lane’s leaders have made the best of a bad job on criminal legal aid, however unpalatable that may be.
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Pro bono disappointment
There appears to be no mention or perhaps no awareness of the fact that it is legal aid firms who do the vast majority of pro bono in this country, unnoticed.
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March to mediation
The courts are there to do a job, but unfortunately they seem hell-bent on driving those seeking justice away from the courts.
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Court reality
It should be compulsory for all magistrates to be ex-, or ideally, current offenders, so they can bring reality into the courtroom.