clinical negligence

• The legal aid bill: a stroke of genius or a complete cock-up?
  Posted on March 5, 2012 by Louise Restell
  I'll give them this, the coalition government has a thick skin. Having only passed the Welfare Reform Bill by one vote last week and still dragging the Health and Social Care Bill kicking and screaming through the House of Lords, today it attempts to squeeze the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (Laspo) past growing opposition from peers.
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  Posted in: Legal aid
  Tagged: clinical negligence, Jackson, Ken Clarke, LASPO, legal aid, legal aid bill, legal aid cuts, mediation, no win no fee, telephone gateway
• Challenging state decisions: is Cinderella up to the job?
  Posted on October 25, 2011 by Louise Restell
  It’s probably not quite close enough to Christmas to start employing pantomime analogies, but if there were ever a Cinderella in our justice system it is surely administrative justice. It’s not a phrase that trips easily off the tongue, most of the public have probably never heard of it, most lawyers don’t pay it much attention and even the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) barely mentions it in its business plan. Which is odd because, unlike criminal justice, most people will probably come into contact with it at some point.
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  Posted in: Justice system, Legal aid, Rule of Law
  Tagged: administrative justice, AJTC, appeals, AvMA, benefit removal, clinical negligence, complaints, justice, LASPO, legal aid cuts, legislation, Medical Justice, Osborne, policy, Public Law Project