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• Misc

  • £250,000 separates barristers from QCs
  • £5m drugs trial collapses after 'CPS failures'
  • 30,000 magistrates to take compulsory race attitudes test
  • 30m saving as CPS breaches Bar monopoly
  • 60% rise in legal aid fraud inquiries

 

• A:

  • A basically good idea has been turned into flawed law
  • A future together
  • A large shock from a little island for the Lord Chancellor
  • A major new survey of the Bar reveals reduced earnings and a fear of solicitors
  • A pro bono groundswell
  • A 'revolution' in prosecuting crime
  • A right of appeal
  • ACCESS TO JUSTICE REFORMS AT HEAD OF CHANGES TO LEGAL LANDSCAPE
  • Acquittals may be subject to appeal
  • Advertisements for judges in the High Court
  • Advocates lose immunity from suit
  • Advocating a finer time
  • Alex Maines and Melanie McIntosh defend the 'cab-rank' rule for barristers against its critics
  • Alliance will kill jury Bill
  • American judges behaving badly in the courtroom
  • Are MDPs the way forward?
  • Are the costs worth the risk?
  • As students start to hunt for jobs, Philip Thomas asks if the price is too high

 

• B:

  • Bad morale, too dogmatic and low standards
  • Bar agrees to curb legal aid fees
  • Bar could pay taxpayer's bill for new QCs
  • Bar defeats bid to end monopoly of jury trials
  • Bar fights Straw over jury trial curb
  • Bar is in danger of return to elitist era
  • Barristers agree to offer free services
  • Barristers back QC reform
  • Barristers' fees to be sharply cut
  • Barristers find wigs not guilty of all charges
  • Barristers lose immunity from being sued
  • Barristers' pay is cut by £50m in assault on legal aid
  • Beloff says Lord Irvine should lose judicial role
  • Bentley plea marks start of justice watchdog
  • Bias still exists
  • Bias, prejudice and the Pinochet case
  • Bill to curb trial by jury may be put on hold
  • Blacks will be hit most by jury changes
  • Breaking barriers to the Bar
  • Business affected across the board
  • Butler-Sloss to break judicial glass ceiling

 

• C:

  • Case of McGonnell v United Kingdom
  • Chancellor's new service offers easy access to quality legal advice
  • Change top justice jobs to end political bias, says law lord
  • CHANGES TO NEW MODE OF TRIAL BILL ANNOUNCED
  • Check on selection of judges and QCs
  • Cherie Booth attacks judge selection 'bias'
  • Choice of judges to be more open
  • Claims assessors accused of exploiting accident victims
  • Client need not pay for unqualified advice
  • Clients are opting for multi-disciplinary partnerships but lawyers are split, says Chris Arnheim
  • CLS PARTNERSHIPS REACH OUT TO 50% OF POPULATION IN ENGLAND & WALES
  • Coalition of peers defeat Bill to cut defendants' right to trial by jury
  • Code for Crown Prosecutors
  • CODE OF CONDUCT FOR MEMBERS OF MAGISTRATES' COURTS' COMMITTEES AND SELECTION PANELS
  • COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE TAKES TO THE ROAD
  • COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE: CONSULTATION PAPER ON FINANCIAL CONDITIONS IN CIVIL CASES
  • Complaints about solicitors soar
  • Complaints against solicitors are on the rise, and firms are too slow in giving satisfaction
  • Complaints on the rise
  • CONDITIONAL FEES EXTENDED - ACCESS TO JUSTICE INCREASED
  • CONSULTATION BEGINS ON RECOVERY OF SUCCESS FEES & INSURANCE PREMIUMS IN CONDITIONAL FEE AGREEMENTS
  • CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR NEW ERA OF LEGAL AID
  • Cost hard to swallow
  • Costs cover for 'no win, no fee' libel cases
  • Court backlog tackled
  • Court clears MS patient who used cannabis openly
  • Courts accused of 'justice by geography' for young
  • Courts prepare for Act that will change lives
  • Courts to have US-style state defence lawyers
  • CPS and police in link to speed justice
  • CPS censured over death in custody cases
  • CPS criticised over inaccurate records
  • CPS defended
  • CPS failing to try criminals, says coroner
  • CPS to face new scrutiny
  • Crime doesn't pay as much for solicitors
  • CRIMINAL DEFENCE SERVICE CONSULTATION PAPER ON CHOICE OF REPRESENTATIVE
  • CRIMINAL DEFENCE SERVICE SALARIED DEFENDER SERVICE GOES OUT TO CONSULTATION
  • Criminal Defence Service: Recovery of Defence Costs Orders
  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MODE OF TRIAL) BILL MAGISTRATES TO DECIDE ON JURY TRIAL
  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MODE OF TRIAL) BILL STATEMENT FROM HOME SECRETARY JACK STRAW
  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM TO BENEFIT FROM IMPROVEMENTS TO STIPENDIARY BENCH
  • Criminal lawyers face fixed price deal
  • Criticism of the handling of a libel case has reopened debate on how and by whom High Court judges should be disciplined, writes Frederick Lawton
  • Crooked lawyers who keep working
  • Crown abandons 10% of court cases
  • CUSTOMER CARE MUST BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR THE LEGAL PROFESSION

 

• D:

  • Defence lawyers face 10% pay cut
  • Delays at solicitors' watchdog worsen
  • DETERMINING MODE OF TRIAL IN EITHER-WAY CASES
  • Donoghue v Stevenson - GINGER BOTTLE IS TOP OF THE POPS
  • Don't let the lawmen banish our laymen
  • 'Dozens of clients are turned away every week'
  • DPP calls for retrial option in acquittals
  • DPP hunts local prosecutors with a mission for justice
  • DPP plans return to courtroom role
  • DPP spells out his opposition to jury change

 

• E:

  • Drive to make JPs blue collar, not blue rinse
  • EMPLOYED SOLICITORS GRANTED RIGHTS OF AUDIENCE IN THE HIGHER COURTS
  • ENCOURAGING SIGNS IN FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
  • 'EU judges are racist and xenophobic'
  • European ruling opens judges to challenge
  • Excess of demand over supply

 

• F:

  • Factors affecting the decision to apply for Silk and Judicial Office
  • Fairness without chaos
  • Fancy starting on £20,000 or so?
  • Faster system to tackle solicitors' mistakes
  • FIRST APPOINTMENT OF A SOLICITOR DIRECT TO THE HIGH COURT BENCH
  • First solicitors appointed QCs
  • Five rude judges pulled up
  • FOIL cries foul
  • Free lawyers (true)
  • Fury at public defender plans

 

• G:

  • Gays and Masons can sit as judges
  • Girl goes to court over abandoned rape case
  • Give generously for free counsel
  • Give magistrates better training
  • Glut of law graduates see career chances fall
  • Go-ahead for claims by fine defaulters
  • Going straight to the Bar
  • Good judges can be taught to be better
  • Government backs 'no win, no fee' system
  • GOVERNMENT TO "BRING RIGHTS HOME" ON 2 OCTOBER
  • Greenpeace GM crop attack declared legal
  • GUIDE TO HUMAN RIGHTS ACT PUBLISHED
  • Guide will help judges run the media gauntlet

 

• H:

  • Harassment in law firms 'rife'
  • Harsh truths for the class
  • High noon or just business as usual?
  • HOME SECRETARY ANNOUNCES PROSECUTION RIGHT OF APPEAL REVIEW
  • How Euro law will change your life
  • How the Bar has set about changing its image
  • Human rights go to court

 

• I:

  • 'I could have been a judge but I never had the Latin'
  • 'I want fairer justice for all'
  • Ill-prepared UK plc can expect a rash of litigants
  • Immigration lawyers face legal aid ban
  • Improved access to justice
  • In defence of a trial by jury
  • INCREASING DIVERSITY IN JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
  • Inns of Court scrap medieval dinners rule for Bar students
  • Insurance is the answer
  • Irvine clashes with Law Society
  • Irvine cuts defence barristers' charges by 10%
  • Irvine defends his dual role
  • Irvine drops plan for lay people to help pick judges
  • Irvine heads off clash with judges over powers
  • Irvine may lose right to sit as a judge
  • Irvine seeks openness and value for money
  • Irvine tells how aspiring judges are marked up
  • Irvine threatens solicitors with new watchdog
  • Irvine to scrap Bar's court monopoly
  • Irvine warns of rich elite.
  • Is the legal profession riddled with racism?
  • Is this the end of the 'secret soundings'?

 

• J:

  • JPs could play second fiddle to a bench lawyer
  • JPs in Straw's back yard are most lenient
  • JPs put themselves under the microscope
  • Judge dismisses jury over fears of racial prejudice
  • Judge joins in attack on the $1m-a-year QCs
  • Judge makes JPs pay for jailing error
  • Judge picks over victim's 17-year-old rape ordeal
  • Judges across England opposed Lord Bingham's promotion to Lord Chief Justice.
  • Judges appeal for easy route to retirement
  • Judges brought to book over race blunders
  • Judges condemn legal service plan
  • Judges defended over rape trials
  • Judges face torrent of human rights claims
  • Judges get help with language of everyday life
  • Judges get lessons in gender awareness
  • Judges 'must not stray into politics'
  • Judges offered role in deciding law policy
  • JUDGES ON THRESHOLD OF ENHANCED ROLE
  • Judges protest at 'far-fetched' legal aid cases
  • Judges' reform 'must go further'
  • Judges seen as 'old and out of touch'
  • Judges will be trained how not to be rude
  • Judges will face fiercer scrutiny
  • Judicial scrutiny backed by Lord Chief Justice
  • Judiciary attacks change in hours
  • Jurors will be picked by computer
  • Jury Bill heads for stand-off
  • JURY EXCUSAL AND DEFERRAL: RESEARCH FINDINGS PUBLISHED
  • Jury trials cost 10 times JP hearings
  • Justice - now seen to be advertised
  • Justice claims clown for the Bench
  • Justice denied on the Human Rights Act
  • Justice for all, or a dangerous shift in power?
  • Justice for the middle class in law reform

 

• L:

  • Labour faces row over reforms to end elitism in the courts
  • Labour holds back law students, Cherie told
  • Labour rebels fight changes to trial by jury
  • Labour reneges on pledge to reform Bench
  • Law complaints system to close for one year
  • Law firms refuse fair hearing for clients' complaints
  • Law lords overturn decision to deny Pinochet immunity
  • Law Society chief plans to take over the Bar
  • Law Society fails to score on pro bono target
  • Law Society to boycott 'old boys' network'
  • Law 'still biased towards rich, white and male'
  • LawTeacher.net | In the first of an occasional series, John Wadham, director of Liberty, looks at the legal changes under the Act
  • Lawyer 'in legal aid fraud'
  • Lawyers face up to threat from supermarkets
  • Lawyers facing shake-up
  • Lawyers give helping hand
  • Lawyers join critics of Straw's jury trial plans
  • Lawyers join scheme to represent hard-up clients
  • Lawyers ordered to justify charges
  • Lawyers' pay too high, says CBI chief
  • Lawyers rush to capitalise on big boom in 'no win, no fee' cases
  • Lawyers speak up for trial by jury
  • Lawyers told not to waste courts' time
  • Lawyers told they risk losing self-regulation
  • Lawyers told to deal quickly with complaints
  • Lawyers unite on right to jury trial
  • Lay magistrates
  • Layman 'should assess law complaints'
  • Laymen to help pick judges
  • Legal aid centre takes to the road
  • Legal aid curb on home owners
  • Legal aid cuts 'will drive away best barristers'
  • Legal aid fees and access to justice
  • Legal aid from the doctor's surgery
  • Legal aid may go in 60 per cent of civil disputes
  • Legal aid solicitors launch low-pay protest
  • Legal aid: past imperfect, future conditional
  • Legal complaints reform 'urgent'
  • Legal cost disputes threaten reform
  • LEGAL PROFESSIONS SHOULD REFLECT THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE
  • Let's leave politics out of double jeopardy debate
  • Life sentence 'exceptional circumstances'
  • Lord Bingham overrules DPP on death in custody
  • LORD CHANCELLOR AND LORD CHIEF JUSTICE LAUNCH THE EQUAL TREATMENT BENCH BOOK
  • Lord Chancellor announces agenda for change in the provision of legal services
  • LORD CHANCELLOR ANNOUNCES FIRST LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION CHAIR
  • LORD CHANCELLOR ANNOUNCES NEW CONDITIONS OF SERVICE FOR PART-TIME JUDICIAL OFFICE HOLDERS
  • LORD CHANCELLOR ANNOUNCES PROPOSALS FOR ADVOCATES' FEES FOR CRIMINAL AND FAMILY CASES.
  • LORD CHANCELLOR COMMISSIONS A REVIEW
  • LORD CHANCELLOR CONTINUES SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVES TO POLITICAL BALANCE IN LAY MAGISTRACY
  • Lord Chancellor is told proposals are a threat to independence of judiciary, writes Frances Gibb
  • LORD CHANCELLOR LAUNCHES INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF HOW JUDGES AND QUEEN'S COUNSEL ARE APPOINTED
  • LORD CHANCELLOR PUBLISHES CONSULTATION
  • LORD CHANCELLOR PUBLISHES INDEPENDENT REVIEW
  • LORD CHANCELLOR RAISES QUALIFYING LIMITS FOR LEGAL AID
  • LORD CHANCELLOR REFORMS LAY MAGISTRATE APPOINTMENT SYSTEM
  • LORD CHANCELLOR SEEKS FIRST COMMISSIONER FOR JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
  • LORD CHANCELLOR SEEKS HIGH COURT JUDGE APPLICANTS
  • Lord Chancellor 'should cease to lead the judiciary'
  • LORD CHANCELLOR TO SEEK INCREASE TO STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE NUMBERS
  • Lord Irvine attacked over call for more Labour JPs
  • Lord Irvine is whistling in the dark

 

• M:

  • Mackay condemns offensive remark
  • Magistrate fears 'white justice'
  • Magistrate sackings on rise under Lord Irvine
  • Magistrates to get training in assertiveness
  • May the farce be ended
  • Meet Mr Complaints
  • Minimum pay for lawyers
  • MINISTER VISITS SOLICITOR COMPLAINTS BODY
  • Ministers 'committed' to jury trials Bill
  • Ministers 'hide facts' about courtroom bias
  • Ministers may defy rights Act over Hindley
  • Ministers propose to drop jury for fraud trials
  • Minorities are appointed QCs
  • MINORITY LAWYERS URGED TO SHADOW JUDGES
  • Missed chances for better justice
  • MODERNISING JUSTICE
  • MODERNISING JUSTICE
  • Monitor for judge selection
  • Monitoring urged for barristers
  • More judges needed for rights challenges
  • Most-abused race victim failed by CPS
  • MOVE TO END PAYMENT DISPARITY BETWEEN DEFENCE AND PROSECUTION ADVOCATES
  • MPs call for an end to secret system of selecting magistrates
  • MPs rebel on jury reform
  • Must justice be male?
  • 'My colleagues and I are willing to pay for pupillage'

 

• N:

  • New brand of justice
  • New chiefs will help to get CPS back on track
  • NEW COMPETITION FOR DEPUTY DISTRICT JUDGES
  • New name, but bad old habits
  • New powers to challenge sentences
  • NEW SYSTEM PROPOSED FOR TESTING THE MEANS OF CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS
  • 'No win, less fee' contracts could cut legal aid bill
  • No win, no fee justice will be a rip-off, says Bar chairman
  • 'No win, no fee' proposal no solution to legal aid reform
  • No win, no fee, no solution
  • No win, no fee: how clients can lose
  • No win, no fee: what the client must pay anyway
  • Number of firms providing legal aid is halved to 5,000

 

• O:

  • October 2 will be a date to celebrate
  • OLDER MAGISTRATES APPOINTED
  • Overstressed CPS staff 'driven into the ground'

 

• P:

  • PATIENCE IN COURT
  • Peers wreck Bill to curb trial by jury
  • PIONEERS LAY FOUNDATIONS FOR COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE TO BUILD ON
  • Police face manslaughter charge as DPP is overruled
  • POLITICAL BALANCE ON MAGISTRATES' BENCHES "TIME FOR CHANGE?" ASKS LORD CHANCELLOR
  • Privacy and the right to know
  • Pro bono demand soars

 

• Q:

  • QUEEN'S COUNSEL 2000

 

• R:

  • Raising the benchmark
  • Rebel peers defeat Straw on jury trial
  • Record number of women take silk
  • REDUCING THE TRIALS OF JURY SERVICE
  • Reforms hit legal aid barristers' pay
  • Reforms raise prospect of new Lawrence trial
  • Review body asked to assess 4,000 cases
  • RIGHTS OF AUDIENCE PROPOSALS CLEAR FINAL HURDLE
  • Rough justice for the innocent?
  • Rude judges must mind their manners
  • Ruling renews rivalry with ministers over sentencing

 

• S:

  • Sander v United Kingdom (Application No 34129/96)
  • Secret soundings must stop
  • Senior lawyers to consider discarding their 'archaic' wigs
  • Sentenced to hold our lives in their hands
  • Should a judge have outside interests?
  • Should clients be able to sue their lawyers?
  • SILK 2000 - APPLICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT AS QUEEN'S COUNSEL
  • Silk should not be cut but overseen by the Bar
  • Small solicitor firms could be lost in change
  • Solicitors' complaints director resigns suddenly
  • Solicitors earn £1m a year for first time
  • Solicitors facing complaints fines
  • Solicitors get 17,000 complaints
  • Solicitors in trouble increase, but claims are down
  • Solicitors to shun legal aid work in pay dispute
  • Solicitors to strike for first time over shake-up of legal aid system
  • Solicitors who cannot face another day at work
  • Still wanted: 12 good men and true
  • Straw deal will cut extra 2,000 jury trials
  • Straw takes on opponents of jury changes
  • Straw to curb right to trial by jury
  • Streamlined route to court approved
  • Survey slates legal aid as 'second-rate'
  • Swifter justice for victims of bad lawyers

 

• T:

  • Teaching judges to do more than judge
  • 'The Act gives us values in a Godless age'
  • The Bar is creating second-class citizens
  • The Bar pays lip service only to change. It remains elitist, sexist and racist
  • The Bar provides cheapest lawyers
  • The BarMark will raise legal standards, say Hazel Davis and Jane Hoyal
  • The 'cab-rank' rule can no longer be justified, says Gary Webber
  • The Cost of Criminal Justice
  • The costs of justice under scrutiny
  • The Crown may get new right of appeal
  • The Crown Prosecution Service is being revamped
  • The dangers of public defenders
  • The fundamental freedoms
  • The grim costs of learning the law
  • The Human Rights Act
  • The judicial appointment system reformers should look abroad, says Neil Addison
  • The law of reality bites
  • The law office of the future
  • The lawyers' watchdogs
  • THE LAY MAGISTRACY AND THE JUDICIARY
  • The men who will usher in a new era in British law
  • The planned solicitors' complaints body will be disastrous, says Martin Mears
  • The Public Deserves More
  • The real cost of trial by jury
  • The value of solicitors
  • Time to lay down the law on judges' dual roles
  • Time to lay off lay magistrates?
  • Too tied in red tape to prosecute
  • Top criminal lawyer to be new CPS head
  • Top judge says US-style vetting will harm Bench
  • Trainee lawyers complain of low pay and long hours
  • Trainee solicitors 'are being bullied'
  • Trial by jury: why are we relying on the Magna Carta?
  • Trial could force judges to declare they are Masons
  • Triple whammy threatens future stars of the Bar
  • Turning justice into 'a sausage machine'
  • TWO NEW LCD RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED
  • TWO THIRDS OF ENGLAND AND WALES HAVE EMBRACED COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE PARTNERSHIPS
  • Two thirds opt out of jury duty

 

• U:

 

• V:

 

• W:

  • Wanted: a judiciary fit for a modern society
  • Wanted: a judicious decision on law lords' roles
  • Watchdog to check how QCs earn their fees
  • We will fight you on the benches
  • Website offers legal aid
  • What price Straw's 'new justice'?
  • What the US can teach us
  • When legal and judicial functions no longer mix
  • Why 'apply, don't be shy' isn't working
  • Why justice must be done and seen to be done
  • WHY NOT BECOME A MAGISTRATE?
  • Why the double jeopardy rule should be retained
  • Why the Lord Chancellor is right
  • Why the way we appoint judges could soon change
  • Why the wheels of justice grind so slowly
  • Wigs give law a bad name, says judge
  • Will lawyers become reformed characters?
  • Will magistrates see the light?
  • Woman Lawyer conference
  • Women in the legal world still earn less
  • Woolf opens door to life sentence appeals

 

• Y:

  • You the jury . . . yes, that means you
  • Young lawyers to get on-the-job training

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