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No retreat on legal aid cuts and Jackson reforms

The government is making few concessions on its legal aid cuts and implementation of the Jackson reforms, an advance copy of the Legal Aid, Sentencing...

Clarke's sentencing discounts ditched

David Cameron has abandoned completely justice secretary Ken Clarke's plan to increase sentence discounts for people who plead guilty at the earliest stage from 33...

Solicitors' firm accepts defeat in battle to save court

Robin Murray & Co, the Kent law firm which launched a judicial review to save Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court, has accepted defeat.

Guiding light

The new sentencing guidelines are designed to ensure consistency and transparency, and give equal weight to both harm and culpability, argues Rosalind Campion as she...

You will go to the ball

Mediocre food, talking shop and terrible speeches – why are barristers so keen on work parties? Felix figures it out

Measuring up

As French practitioners brace themselves for legal aid reform, Geraldine George considers how their system compares with ours

More unequal than others

Lawyers behind the Commission of Inquiry into Legal Aid were well aware of the accusations of bias likely to be levied against them. As leftfield...

The gloves are off

The only winner in the Hastings-Bass U-turn will be the tax man, argues Ruth Hughes