How can the government justify the money and pump over the new financial dispute court in the Rolls building when it is slashing legal aid and closing down local courts, asks Russell Conway
The Agency Workers Regulations come into force tomorrow. These entitle agency workers, after three months in the job, to the same basic pay and similar conditions to permanent employees.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has apologised to solicitors for technical problems they have experienced using ‘mySRA', the new online system for PC renewals and keeping names on the roll.
Cases concerned with the withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment from patients in a minimally conscious or vegetative state should all be heard by the Court of Protection and should be heard in public, a senior judge ruled this morning as he refused an application by the family of a woman who has been in this condition since February 2003.
Max Mosley will continue to push for changes to privacy laws after failing to have his case against News of the World and the UK heard by the grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.