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Will legal aid, as with so many other public services, simply be co-opted into a system of managed decline?

Daniel Newman, Professor in Law at Cardiff University, Emma Cooke, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent, and Jess Mant, a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, discuss the findings from their recent project funded by the British Academy on the legal aid sector

The painful reality of the Sara Sharif case

Catherine Gee, a Barrister at Pump Court Chambers, discusses the issues raised by the Sara Sharif case and the decision to publish the names of the judges involved

Civil legal aid reform: restoring access to justice or running out of time?

Sonia Kalsi, an Associate Professor (Teaching) at the Faculty of Laws at University College London and Deputy Director (Teaching & Learning) of the Faculty’s Centre for Access to Justice, asks whether it’s too late to save civil legal aid

Striking workers are protected against detriment by the Blacklisting Regulations

Glenn Hayes, a Partner at Hill Dickinson, dissects the ruling in Morais and Ors v Ryanair DAC and what it means in practice for workers involved in official industrial action

Vento bands – a cautionary tale for judges and practitioners

Kaajal Nathwani, a Partner at Osborne & Wise, assesses several recent judgments by the Employment Appeal Tribunal regarding the assessment of compensation for injury to feelings and the importance of careful analysis and supporting evidence

Domestic abuse, suicide and manslaughter

In this article, Laurence Toczek, considers the challenges faced by the Crown Prosecution Service in securing a manslaughter conviction in situations where domestic abuse and suicide have taken place

Managing seized crypto: are we missing an opportunity?

Matthew Cowie and Ulrich Schmidt review the most recent UK criminal justice crypto case of R v Boys, Caton and Robinson and conclude that despite this prosecution success, questions remain about whether the UK enforcement regime is using seized crypto-assets effectively and profitably

In defence of the realm – the National Security Act 2023 and the role of private investigators

With the UK’s national security capabilities and allegations of state interference from foreign powers moving into stark view in recent months, the National Security Act 2023, was aimed at providing the UK security services and law enforcement agencies with the relevant tools to fight and disrupt threats against national security by malicious states