Just back from 2 days dealing dealing with the nitty gritty of the legal aid provider – LAA relationship. You got it, primarily interpretations of contract and guidance in relation to unprofitable Legal Help cases. I will spare you the mind-numbing tedium of the individual arguments save to say a fair amount of “makeitupaswegoalongery” is […]
We restart our Friday webinars a week on Friday, 5th February, after the Duty Contract created hiatus. To kick us off we are going to look at current LAA audit practice – what you can expect when you Contract Manager announces a forthcoming visit. We will look at likely methodology, preparation and potential outcomes. As […]
News of a potential climb-down on Duty Contracts moved from social to the mainstream media over the weekend (I can’t find the Independent article and don’t want to waste your time with a link to the nonsense in the Mail on the subject). The increasingly strong indication is that there will be an announcement on […]
This is a new release from Teesside favourites Cattle and Cane’s debut album “Home”. They have a decidedly northern tour coming up and are always a great night out.
Well what’s another week of waiting in this massively over-extended Duty Contract fiasco? I simply cannot remember all the delays and could not be bothered to list them if I could. With litigation pending last weekend the rumor mill started, was the MoJ on the point of a climbdown, and now we have conflicting takes […]
Yes that’s right the Friday Webinar is back. 2016 Managing Your Contract Series Advising on the tense relationship between practitioners and the LAA forms a central element of JRS’ work. Individual firms are easily isolated and most often think that it is they who are, perhaps uniquely, at fault. This series of webinars is an […]
The propaganda assault on junior Doctors yesterday was entirely predictable – committed, life-saving angels turned in to venal, self-serving, Hippocratic Oath breakers over night. At least when it was legal aid lawyers turn for mid-dispute vitriol, a fat cat lawyer had always been a fat cat lawyer and the politicians had not just spent the […]
I was engaged in a saturation dive into the e-portal last week and missed this story and the Twitter storm which followed. Alongside this the other current bane of my life, verification of these stupid and entirely unhelpful new supervisor forms continues as new contracts look further away than ever. I doubt this single error […]
The weather is dreadful, its been a miserable week and we all need something to cheer us up on the first week back in a New Year. I just love this, just try and stop yourself grinning or even dancing round the office.