Around 2.30pm yesterday, my Legal Tweets twitter list gurgled into life with claims that the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, had been delayed. I also had a stream … Continue reading
Perhaps the most interesting angle comes from the Telegraph, which given its propensity to tackle MPs’ expenses claims, points out that they’ll no longer be able to get help defending themselves.
“It’s great, and so are we” say the insurers. “The system’s being abused and they’re taking advantage of it,” say the lawyers. Well which is it? Two very different angles about the the MOJ portal appear in today’s Post Mag and Law Soc Gazette.
I had to re-read the Insurance Times article on this topic because its headline read ‘£11bn by 2050’. So which is it?
this made me chuckle a bit as there’s no better place than Lloyd’s for a spot of barrel-chested Tory rabble rousing.
IT’s coverage is very good. It is comprehensive and makes an otherwise dull subject as exciting as possible with a wild west theme!
Today, the Jackson review recommendations were published and I’d be a rich man if I had a penny for every ten cents put in on this subject. That’s a trans-atlantic metaphor, if ever there was one…
Any article with a headline that begins ‘lawyers cash in…’ elicits a sigh or a wry smile from most people. Everyone knows that lawyers always get paid in the end … Continue reading