Verify 

We are continuing to receive calls about Family Verification. If you have NOT sent a Supervisor or Indemnity form you must do so by the 20th December. You can download blank versions here.

Praise Due 

What a delight to talk to someone reasonable, friendly and helpful at the LSC. As ever no names so as to protect the innocent.

Oh No Not Again 

We are getting a lot of traffic conceding, once again, Supervisor Forms. This seems to us to be a generic letter to all firms REGARDLESS of whether or not they have previously sent a supervisor form. If you have sent one you DO NOT need to respond. For safety’s sake we suggest that you go […]

Down 

Once again a Friday Song sourced from Radcliffe and Maconie, out of 6 Music, (and thanks to Lizze at the show who took the time to mail me back with details of the track) . The album from whence it comes is on the way from Amazon (could not be bothered to trek to HMV […]

More on Costs (limitations) 

Friday mornings are always a bit of rush as things need finishing before I head off to do the Webinar from my quiet location. When you have a raft of unplanned, urgent matters on top it gets a bit bonkers. First up this morning is another High Cost Care case on which the Cost Limitation […]

Art 

This exhibition opens tonight (apparently they open rather than “kick off”). It is in the Python Heritage Gallery which the owners of our block have established, along with the Bistro, near to us on the Ground Floor. Will have a good look tomorrow. If you are in M’Boro – perhaps held over lunch, at the […]

Life Without Legal Aid 

This is well worth a read in full, by Join Robins at New Law Journal She (Lady Hale) quoted the academic Dr EJ Cohn who published a comparative study of legal aid in the Law Quarterly Review in 1943. Legal aid was a service that a modern state owed to its citizens “as a matter […]

More On Costs 

I have had my head in Civil Cost Assessment Guidance (CAG) and CBAM for the first time in ages this week. I anticipate that civil appeals will become an increasing adjunct to our Cost Drafting arm in the months ahead. They are getting more aggressive, you need all your costs and they are getting more […]

Can I Help You? 

More “Call Centre” opportunities.

Final Post 

The LSC have confirmed the FINAL verification deadline for Family Bids as 20th December.