Osborne

• 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
• Hands off our employment rights
  Posted on October 2, 2011 by Louise Restell
  According to the OECD, the UK already has one of the most business-friendly frameworks of employment law of any of its members, second only to the US. The chancellor, George Osborne, is obviously not convinced. He told The Sun newspaper yesterday we talk far too much about ‘union rights’ and not enough about the rights of unemployed people to get a job. That’s why he’s increasing the qualifying period for employees to make unfair dismissal claims from one to two years.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: employment law, employment rights, employment tribunal, Osborne, TUC, unfair dismissal, unions