Jon Robins, Author at Legal

Home Office being challenged over ‘scandal’ of citizenship registration fees

Posted by Jon Robins - 30th November 2018

The Home Office is being challenged over a £1,012 fee which is imposed on children to register as British citizens. The High Court is looking at legality of a fee…

Sumption: Barristers with ‘banner in hand and wig on head look ridiculous’

Posted by Jon Robins - 29th November 2018

Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption courted controversy at the weekend when, drawing a distinction with criminal legal aid, he labelled the civil budget ‘discretionary’. He also said that barristers demonstrating…

JusticeWatch: ‘The Bar is backsliding into a career for the rich’

Posted by Jon Robins - 23rd November 2018

Backsliding at the Bar Caighli Taylor, a 31-year-old barrister speaking to the The Times’ Law, reported that barristers were leaving the Bar ‘en masse’. ‘Demanding hours at unremunerative rates, changeable diaries…

UN expert talks of the ‘gutting’ of legal aid in critique of poverty in the UK

Posted by Jon Robins - 22nd November 2018

The UN expert on extreme poverty has identified the ‘gutting’ of legal aid as a result of the LASPO cuts as a part of his blistering critique of the ‘dismantling’…

JusticeWatch: Untold damage

Posted by Jon Robins - 16th November 2018

Judge crowdfunds whistleblowing case The first judge to take a whistleblowing appeal to the supreme court launched a crowdfunding campaign to test the employment rights of judges, reported Owen Bowcott…

Attorney General calls for ‘zero tolerance’ on disclosure failures

Posted by Jon Robins - 16th November 2018

‘Untold damage’ had been caused by disclosure failings, according to the Attorney General’s review published yesterday. Geoffrey Cox QC said: ‘For too long, disclosure has been seen as an administrative…

JusticeWatch: Conveyor belt justice

Posted by Jon Robins - 9th November 2018

Conveyor belt justice I spent a day at Stratford Housing Centre in east London shadowing Simon Mullings, the housing duty adviser as part of the new Justice in a Time of…

Law Society calls plans to liberalise market ‘a serious mistake’

Posted by Jon Robins - 8th November 2018

The Legal Services Board has approved the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s controversial proposals to allow solicitors to freelance and offer paid-for legal services through any business as part of its ‘Looking to…

JusticeWatch: Better late than never

Posted by Jon Robins - 2nd November 2018

Better late than never #1 Kicking off a Westminster Hall debate on legal aid yesterday, the Labour MP Andy Slaughter called on the government to ‘tackle the funding issue head…

JusticeWatch: Justice Week

Posted by Jon Robins - 26th October 2018

Justice Week An ‘overwhelming majority’ of the public thinks that ‘justice’ is ‘as important as health or education’, according to a survey released ahead of the first Justice Week (the…

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