Thursday – it must be Manchester 

Training all day again tomorrow – places are still available. The course went down well in Leeds and once more reinforced our concerns about how difficult it is for the busy practitioner to keep up with the constant barrage of change. I intend to try a first, and do a remote post from my hotel […]

A Fairer Legal Aid? 

We have been a little bit tardy bringing to your attention the Governments proposals regarding a ?Fairer Legal Aid?. This is the outcome of FLAR. Lord Falconer’s headline commitment is: “The Government will take steps to address the disproportionate amount of money spent on defending high-cost criminal cases and redistribute funding so that all criminal […]