I have my first appeal against the new style Crime Contract Compliance Audit in front of me and guess what: Unrepresentative sample Comprehensive misunderstanding of Contract and CBAM Insufficient and unreferenced justification for decisions Demands for money with menaces Exactly right back to where we were nearly 5 years ago. “Applied Muppetry” does not get […]
Whilst we are on the subject of costs adjudications we did some interesting Freedom of Information delving before last Christmas. Most appeals, like the one referred to in the link above (post below) are now undertaken in the Region in which the “business delivery centre” is based. You may have a view as to whether […]
Now decisions of Cost Committees – sorry Independent Adjudicators – do not set precedents. At the height of the CCA wars however, when we were doing multiple hearings every week, and when the Committee Clerk was a suitably senior, experienced and trained member of staff they nearly did. I remember one case, a successful Category […]
We have generated something of a new LSC vocabulary on this blog as amply demonstrated by the post below and the oft used, and allied title, “autorecbot”. These have developed from our, and our clients, daily experience of the ever-changing world of Legal Aid. The two current favourites are “makeitupaswegoalongery” and “applied muppetry”. Examples of […]
I did a story about Transformers on Tuesday last and the Gazette picks it up and runs it on Thursday. The phrase “cut to the chase” is perhaps a little inappropriate in the circumstances however there looks like some serious downsizing on the cards with, no doubt, a reduction in the quality of service. I […]
Have just wasted 30 mins trying to get tickets to see Mr W (don’t like that ‘Modfather’ stuff) at Middlesbrough Town Hall in May – I hope for better luck later here however is some of what we hope to see: We do an acoustic version
As we explained here the decision to allow travel disbursements to be claimed over and above the Crown Court Litigators Fee lead to some last minute changes to the rates tables. These are both different in number and also format to those used on our recent training event and are published in the final Funding […]
CDS suppliers will want to have a look at this next bout of “makeitupaswegoalongery”. I have only had a brief glance and there are at least a couple of interesting developments, post charge claims at old rates for instance. The main area of concern is still the “when is more than one fee claimable” question. […]
Three days left this week that means three in-house courses to deliver (all different) and both a Peer Review and a CCA appeal to tidy up. Who said February was quiet.
Before watching The Bourne (whatever the last one is called) on Sky last night there was an advert for “Transformers” which is now on Box Office too. Now regulars will know that we have had a a bit of fun here with names such as “Autorecbots” and of course the “Robots in Disguise” themselves. I […]