Justice secretary Ken Clarke is expected to tell the Commons tomorrow that key concessions will be made in the drastic cuts planned for civil legal aid, sources have told Solicitors Journal.
A statutory reliability test for experts in criminal trials “would prevent miscarriages of justice†such as the conviction of solicitor Sally Clark for the killing of her two baby boys, a Law Commissioner has said.
The government's localism agenda and the proposed changes to the planning system continue to dominate the landscape, say Julian Boswall and Gary Soloman
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