TLS Conference Contribution Redux 

I spoke on Criminal Costs last week at TLS Legal Aid conference – it was a slightly unusual 3 X 20 minute set up with me moving between tables of about 8 delegates. I was asked to post a summary of the main topics covered – albeit briefly – so here we go. These are […]

Bad Habits 

After the sublime Mariza at the Barbican on Tuesday our next live music outing is The Last Shadow Puppets at Boro Town Hall next Friday, with Stockton Calling on the Saturday. Looking forward to both – here are Kane and Turner with the first release from “Everything You’ve Come to Expect”.    

Splitting Claims? 

There is a bit of auditing of mainstream Criminal contracts going on at present – not just Prison Law. One of the main issues is multiple police station claims – easy to target via same names and close UFNs. Here is what I have just summariesd for one client. If anyone has tried to appeal […]

Been to the Moon 

Can’t believe it’s 6 years since Corrine Bailey Rae’s last product, but it is. This is the first insight into the new album “The Heart Speaks in Whispers” and it is sensational – cant wait for live shows and just might have to go to Live At Leeds on that basis alone

Here’s Hoping 

This substance of this admission will be of no surprise to Legal Aid lawyers – though that it has even been made more so. We watched as successive Labour Lord Chancellors and Legal Aid ministers did the ideological spadework which lead to the years of “fat cat lawyers” living it up in the “most expensive […]