Small Mercies 

It appears that the correspondence quoted from regarding forthcoming CM “reject rate” visits is standard. That means that one normally sensible CM has not gone mad and/or bad.

Surprise, Surprise 

If you missed this over the weekend it suggests that Legal Aid cuts are resulting in “a significant breakdown in criminal justice system” and that they “may not be saving taxpayers any money at all”. Who’d have thunk it?

Testing Testing 

Friend of this site Tim Collins, at No 6 Chambers in Leeds, has patiently been digging for the statistical basis of PCT for some time now. To no avail. In particular he has doggedly been seeking some rational, evidential basis to justify the continued operation of the Public Defenders Service (PDS). If you remember it […]