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When to apply for prior authority (and how long the LSC thinks assessments take)
There has finally been some guidance published about this vexed issue. You may recall previous anguished blogs by me about this, most particularly that the last system (“don’t apply for prior authority...
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Transformers…. Cutting robots in disguise
One might have thought that in the week that LASPO kicked in, with huge chunks of areas of legal representation being taken out of the legal aid system, the Government might let those lawyers who...
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Legal Aid Agency wasteful and inefficient (also important news about the...
Re R (Children : Temporary Leave to Remain) 2014 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/643.html This was a private law case that really hinged on the fact that parents who were involved in...
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Getting an expert report in private law proceedings
The Court of Appeal (almost a year after the High Court ruled otherwise) have decided in JG v the Lord Chancellor and Others 2014, that a Court can lawfully decide that the costs of an expert report...
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