Wow. Rock on Mr Justice Coleridge! Coleridge J opened the Resolution Conference last week with a speech that is considerably less diplomatic than many a judicial utterance. He says early on in the speech: “I have not discussed this talk with the President let alone shown him a copy in advance. (I did not [...]
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In November 07 the Bar Standards Board published the results of a piece of commissioned MORI research on Perceptions of Barristers. Somewhat shamefully I have failed to comment on it before now and it was only when a review of the report appeared in this month’s Counsel magazine that I have been galvanised into action [...]
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Posted in family, public funding on August 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Thats twice this week a client has been refused funding for representation as respondent to a prohibited steps order application, and a third on the horizon (my diary seems to be full of PSO’s). This must be the new thing they are refusing in order to save costs.
It’s been common practice to refuse funding for [...]
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