JusticeWatch: Legal aid’s failing safety net
No safety net Almost four out of 10 legal aid firms do not use the LASPO ‘safety net’ and make exceptional case funding applications, according to a new study by…
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Jon Robins
Jon is a journalist and has written about the law and justice for the national papers and specialist press for more than 15 years. Jon is a visiting journalism lecturer at Winchester University, a visiting senior fellow in access to justice at the University of Lincoln and patron of Hackney Community Law Centre. He has won the Bar Council’s legal reporter of the year award twice (2015 and 2005). Jon is editor and co-founder of LegalVoice
JusticeWatch: And so the ‘headlong rush into impetuous reform’ begins
Headlong rush It was only the day before yesterday when the then attorney general Geoffrey Cox QC suggested that while he had concerns about the ‘judicialisation’ of politics, there was…
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JusticeWatch: The Brenda agenda
The Brenda agenda ’What stopped Lady Hale becoming president of the UK Supreme Court in 2012?’ asked Joshua Rozenberg in the Law Society’s Gazette. ‘If she had succeeded Lord Phillips…
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JusticeWatch: Is the Justice System Failing Women?
Where’s the next generation going to come from? ’When I first ask students why they studied law or what they want to do when they graduate, many happily say they…
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JusticeWatch: ‘We’ve been waiting for doomsday since the millennium’
Barristers… and giant pandas The bar was ‘officially “on the brink”’, according to a Lexis Nexis report. ‘Rising costs, falling fees, cuts to legal aid and delays to payments are…
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JusticeWatch: ‘It’s payback time…’
It’s payback time Boris Johnson is to accelerate moves to limit the powers of campaign groups and individuals to challenge ministers in the courts, reported The Times. The prime minister claimed that…
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JusticeWatch: Legal aid is for everyone
Struggling to cope The quality of the CPS’s handling of disclosure remained ‘unacceptably low’ with prosecutors failing to identify when police had not disclosed all the relevant evidence in more…
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JusticeWatch: Seasons greetings
A symbol of swashbuckling womanhood Lawyers fell over themselves to pay tribute to the, er, Beyoncé of the legal profession – Lady Brenda Hale retires next month. ‘Clearly, she is a…
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JusticeWatch: The morning after the night before
The morning after the night before ‘With a sizeable majority secured, the eyes of the legal profession now turn to Boris Johnson and his government and how they intend to…
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JusticeWatch: Rehabilitation – not revenge
Weapons-grade shithousery Boris Johnson was accused of plagiarism – not to mention ‘weapons-grade shithousery’ – by the Secret Barrister for having ‘basically copied and pasted my blog post’ (as reported…
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