Clinical negligence

Articles

28 Feb 2011

Road to ruin

The SRA's publication policy can damage a firm's reputation forever. Don't believe it will affect you? Think again, warns Susanna Heley

21 Feb 2011

Critical list

With a three-pronged funding fiasco on the cards and spiralling NHS payouts, it really is time health chiefs stopped repeating their mistakes, argues Philippa Luscombe

14 Feb 2011

Jackson review 'could breach European law', QC says

Removing the rights of the victims of serious accidents to sue for negligence could trigger legal challenges under the European Convention, a leading public law silk has warned.

14 Feb 2011

Poor relation

It is safe to say much of Ken Clarke's Valentine's haul was made up of love letters to another. Legal aid has got lawyers' hearts a flutter with yesterday marking the closure of the consultation into what the MoJ openly admits is to be the biggest shakedown of the system since its inception 60 years ago.

4 Feb 2011

CAB closures loom amid council cuts

Legal advice centres will be forced to close as local authority funding is cut, the head of Citizens Advice has warned.

24 Jan 2011

Judge and jury

Could the English jury become the next victim of a Belgian political assassin? Richard Easton and David Rhodes hold court

14 Dec 2010

Djanogly confirms 142 court closures

Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly told parliament this afternoon that the government would be going ahead with the closure of 142 local courts.

13 Dec 2010

Vanishing point

Coupling costs reform with legal aid cuts could cause calamity for clinical negligence claimants, argues Malcolm Underhill