Controversial reforms to civil & family law will now be delayed until spring 2013
The legal aid reforms to civil and family law have been pushed back six months from next October to April 2013.
The proposed reforms remove legal aid from clinical negligence, private family work, debt, benefits, housing, employment and several other areas of law. The Legal Services Commission (LSC) would be abolished and replaced by a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) agency.
Leaders in their field were recognised and rewarded at last nights’s Eclipse Personal Injury Awards 2011 ceremony held in London.
A top human rights lawyer and a High Court Judge-turned-mediator were among the eminent winners at the fourth annual Eclipse Personal Injury Awards.
Over 470 claims professionals gathered at the Riverbank Plaza Hotel in London on Thursday 24 November for a glittering evening that celebrated excellence across the personal injury claims sector.
News International chief James Murdoch has rejected suggestions the company operated like the Mafia over the phone hacking scandal.
During questioning by MPs, Labour's Tom Watson suggested the UK arm of the company had a policy of "omerta" - the Mafia code of silence.
Mr Murdoch told him that was "offensive and not true".
He told the committee he was not made aware that phone hacking went beyond one rogue reporter as far back as 2008.
The clash with Mr Watson, who has pursued the company over the phone hacking scandal, came halfway through the session
The government wants private providers to fill the gap left by the FSS
The government has defended its decision to close the Forensic Science Service (FSS), which analyses crime scene evidence in England and Wales.
In its response to a damning inquiry report into the closure, it says allowing the service to enter administration would have seriously damaged the criminal justice system.
The government also denies suggestions it did not fully consider alternatives to closure.
The FSS was losing some £2m a month.
Members of the public are taking matters into their own hands as ex police chief provokes human rights campaigners. Liberty’s view is that the large-scale expansion of cameras watching the public in recent years poses a threat to our way of life...
Now imagine.... thousands - if not tens of thousands - of mobile traffic cameras on our roads.
Not fitted to high visibility police vehicles, but installed in private cars, rusty old vans, lorries making deliveries, and even public buses, coaches and taxis.
