Jackson

• 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
• The mayor, the judge, some celebs and the PM's brother
  Posted on October 31, 2011 by Louise Restell
  This week will be crucial in the fight to save legal aid as the bill slashing its budget and restricting its scope enters its final stage in the House of Commons.  Any objective, rational assessment of the provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (LASPO) would surely come to the conclusion that this was a disaster on its way to happening.  Unfortunately, being objective and rational isn’t a requirement for being in government.
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  Posted in: Legal aid
  Tagged: access to justice, Anna Soubry, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Dominic Grieve, Helen Grant, Jackson, justice, LASPO, legal aid cuts, Lord Judge
• Compensation culture? What compensation culture?
  Posted on August 4, 2011 by Louise Restell
  Britain, we are constantly being told, is broken. It's not just the economy, although that's certainly pretty broken. It's not even that our politicians, journalists and bankers are morally bankrupt, although some of them certainly are. No, one of the main reasons Britain is broken is because we are in the fervent grip of a compensation culture.
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  Posted in: Legal services
  Tagged: claims management companies, compensation, compensation culture, insurers, Jack Straw, Jackson, Peter Lodder, whiplash