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- A:
- A basically good idea has been turned into flawed law
- A COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE, BRINGING JUSTICE TO THE PEOPLE
- A COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE, BRINGING JUSTICE TO THE PEOPLE
- 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
- Access to justice
- 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
- Advocating a finer time
- Agency is swamped by cases of wrongful conviction
- 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 faces critical mass
- Bar fights Straw over jury trial curb
- Bar is in danger of return to elitist era
- Barristers agree to offer free services
- Barristers attack 'Mickey Mouse' plans for united profession
- Barristers back QC reform
- Barristers 'cost half as much' as rival solicitors
- 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
- Barristers should offer more direct access
- 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
- 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'
- Chief judge says lawyers' training scheme is elitist
- 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
- 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 HITS THE ROAD
- COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE HITS THE ROAD
- 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
- 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
- Costs cover for 'no win, no fee' libel cases
- Court backlog tackled
- Court clears MS patient who used cannabis openly
- Court shake-up
- Court shake-up
- 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 challenged over failure to act on crane death
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 'Fat cat' or Rumpole - two sides of the Bar
- FIRST APPOINTMENT OF A SOLICITOR DIRECT TO THE HIGH COURT BENCH
- FIRST FIVE AREAS TO PIONEER THE COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE ARE ANNOUNCED BY THE LORD CHANCELLOR
- FIRST FIVE AREAS TO PIONEER THE COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE ARE ANNOUNCED BY THE LORD CHANCELLOR
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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'?
- Issues of morality and social behaviour will increasingly be decided in the courts.
- 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 '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 'are denying jobs to black graduates'
- 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 on £250,000 a year to get 30% rise
- 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 stripped of immunity from prosecution for negligence
- 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 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 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 PRAISES PRO BONO LAWYERS' CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE
- LORD CHANCELLOR PRAISES PRO BONO LAWYERS' CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE
- LORD CHANCELLOR PUBLISHES CONSULTATION
- LORD CHANCELLOR PUBLISHES INDEPENDENT REVIEW
- LORD CHANCELLOR PUBLISHES INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF QUEEN'S COUNSEL AND JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS SYSTEMS
- LORD CHANCELLOR RAISES QUALIFYING LIMITS FOR LEGAL AID
- LORD CHANCELLOR REFORMS LAY MAGISTRATE APPOINTMENT SYSTEM
- LORD CHANCELLOR RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO CONSULTATION EXERCISE ON CONDITIONAL FEES
- LORD CHANCELLOR RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO CONSULTATION EXERCISE ON CONDITIONAL FEES
- 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
- More judges needed for rights challenges
- More solicitors than ever accused of misconduct
- 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' reforms in April
- 'No win, no fee' reforms in April
- No win, no fee, no risk
- No win, no fee, no solution
- No win, no fee: how clients can lose
- No win, no fee: what the client must pay anyway
- Now there is some room at the Inns
- Number of firms providing legal aid is halved to 5,000
- 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
- Practice doesn't make perfect
- Privacy and the right to know
- Pro bono demand soars
- 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 Act will allow judges to shape our lives
- 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 join the Bar as merger with barristers moves a step closer
- Solicitors to shun legal aid work in pay dispute
- Solicitors to strike for first time over shake-up of legal aid system
- Solicitors' vote to strike may deny victims legal aid
- 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 ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT 1999 PROVISIONS COMING INTO EFFECT ON 1 APRIL 2000
- '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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
