In my recent blog about the Brides in the Bath affair I described how the fee available to counsel in 1913 under the Poor Prisoners Defence Act 1903 was £3.5.6d. Continue reading “The Poor Prisoners Defence Acts 1903 and 1930”
In my recent blog about the Brides in the Bath affair I described how the fee available to counsel in 1913 under the Poor Prisoners Defence Act 1903 was £3.5.6d. Continue reading “The Poor Prisoners Defence Acts 1903 and 1930”
Introduction
When I was writing the introduction to the History of Legal Aid, I wondered what fee was paid to counsel assigned to a defendant under the Poor Prisoners Defence Act 1903. Continue reading “The Brides in the Bath”
My eighteenth story of injustice relates to the Legal Aid Agency’s much criticised handling of applications for legal aid in criminal cases. Continue reading “Stories of injustice (18): LASPO and the cuts”
My seventeenth story of injustice relates to some of the typical difficulties which asylum-seekers face under LASPO. Continue reading “Stories of Injustice (17): LASPO and the cuts”
For my 16th story of injustice, I am indebted to the Public Law Project, of which I am the patron. Continue reading “Stories of Injustice (16): LASPO and the cuts”
The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. Continue reading “My 80th birthday”
Here is another story from the Harrow Law Centre. “Adil” was not the client’s true name. Continue reading “Stories of Injustice (15): LASPO and the cuts”
By Sir Henry Brooke[1]
Between May and July 2016 I was involved in the task of sorting out and reordering the large quantity of valuable information which came to Lord Bach’s Access to Justice Commission in response to its Call for Written Evidence. Continue reading “The History of Legal Aid – 1945 to 2010”
By Sir Henry Brooke
This is a sequel to “Seven Stories of Injustice”. Continue reading “Seven More Stories of Injustice”
By Sir Henry Brooke[1]
In this paper (and its sequel(s)) I will be setting out some of the real-life stories Lord Bach’s Access to Justice Commission (the Bach Commission) has been told by people and organisations on the front line. Continue reading “Seven Stories of Injustice”