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Jessica Elgot

Legal Aid Cuts 'Could See Wrongly Accused Pressured To Plead Guilty'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Elgot | Posted 20.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Lawyers, UK News, Christopher Jefferies, Legal Aid Cuts, Legal Aid, Ministry of Justice, UK Law, Justice, The Law Society, UK News

Legal aid is being slashed "at random" by the Ministry of Justice, leaving a system where the wrongly accused can be represented by a "pig in a poke" ...

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Working to End Discrimination

Yohei Sasakawa | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK
Read More: Law, Human Rights, Unhrc, Discrimination, India, Un, Brazil, Japan, Leprosy, Inequality, The Law Society, UK Impact, Impact, UK News
Yohei Sasakawa

Discrimination comes in many different forms - but the discrimination we are addressing in London today concerns a disease, leprosy, which goes back to biblical times and, until the early 1980s, was - like HIV AIDs - thought to be incurable.

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Law Society: Ambush Marketing Debate

Sarah Louise Hadland | Posted 29.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Law, London Olympics, Olympics, Olympics Legeslation, Locog, The Law Society, UK News
Sarah Louise Hadland

Given the competing interests, has the government achieved the right balance between the interests of ordinary tax-paying business, from giants to corner shops, and even Joy Tompkins, and the sponsors who have invested so heavily?

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Mediation and Litigants in Person is not the Silver Bullet

Richard Miller | Posted 13.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Civil Legal Aid, Law, UK Politics, Legal Disputes, Family Law, David Cameron, Legal Aid, The Law Society, UK Politics News
Richard Miller

Last week the Justice Select Committee launched a report on the Operation of the Family Courts. It is a good report well researched and written and presents a series of options to help family disputes. It presents the role of mediation but also the limits of mediation in solving civil cases.

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Legal Aid Reveals Government test for Incapacity Benefit is Inaccurate

Richard Miller | Posted 13.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Legal Funding, Trade Union Congress, The Law Society, Support Allowance, Employment, Atos, UK Politics News
Richard Miller

There has been a lot of recent national press coverage about the government findings showing that a large proportion of people who applied for Employment & Support Allowance were actually found to be capable of doing some form of work.

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