Legal Aid

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Training for today in legal aid

Does a new centralised assessment really address the issues facing the profession, ask Siobhan Taylor-Ward and Gimhani Eriyagolla

What did we get right in 2015?

Russell Conway reflects on the last year and whether the challenges of legal aid work are worth the rewards

CMC stripped of licence after 40 million nuisance calls

'Wilfully ignorant' company 'rips off consumers' and 'demonstrates the worst excesses of the industry'

The modern day CFA

Gordon Wignall asks whether an assignment of a personal injury CFA is possible

Revising cost budgets: 'The importance of being prompt

David Wright discusses a recent case on the extent of the court's power to approve incurred and future costs and the lessons practitioners can learn from it

Where was the government in Kerrie Backhouse's case?

As every lawyer in the land will confirm, the law can be a slow moving beast, sometimes taking many decades to catch up with changing social realities. Witness the rapid rise of cohabitation over recent decades. Couples who live together without marrying are now the fastest growing family type in the UK, but there is still no law recognising such relationships in England and Wales.

'Ambulance-chasing lawyers' have abused legal aid in claims against British soldiers

Former armed forces minister 'mystified' at financial support funding allegations

Lord Falconer: There's no infighting over justice

The shadow Lord Chancellor speaks to John van der Luit-Drummond on the pillars of justice at the mercy of government and his party's obligation to support its new leader