I have now received three further stories. Continue reading “Further comments on Stories of Injustice No 19”
Month: August 2016
My last pre-retirement thoughts on Civil Procedure
At the end of next month I will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of my voluntary (and never-regretted!) retirement from the Bench at the age of 70. Continue reading “My last pre-retirement thoughts on Civil Procedure”
Some comments on my last blog (Stories of Injustice No 19)
Since I posted the nineteenth blog in my series of “Stories of Injustice” I have received a number of messages and comments on what I wrote. Continue reading “Some comments on my last blog (Stories of Injustice No 19)”
Stories of Injustice (19)
In the fourth story in this series I wrote about the experience of the husband of a woman I called Sharon who is adamant that he was unjustly convicted of a sex offence he allegedly committed over ten years earlier: Continue reading “Stories of Injustice (19)”
Three Years of Exceptional Case Funding in Inquest Cases
In his second annual report (for 2014-5) the Chief Coroner said that although about 230,000 deaths are reported to coroners across England and Wales each year, most of them are signed off by coroners as a death from natural causes, and only about 25,000 cases proceeded to an investigation and inquest, with juries being summoned in 397 of them. Continue reading “Three Years of Exceptional Case Funding in Inquest Cases”
Three Years of Exceptional Case Funding in non-Inquest Cases
I have just completed a review of the statistics published by the Legal Aid Agency for the first three years of the new scheme. Continue reading “Three Years of Exceptional Case Funding in non-Inquest Cases”
The Costs Barriers to Environmental Justice: My thoughts ten years ago
It is now just over ten years since I delivered a lecture in London to the Environmental Law Foundation, Continue reading “The Costs Barriers to Environmental Justice: My thoughts ten years ago”
Judge John Tanzer retires: his massive contribution to Judicial I.T.
Judge John Tanzer, lately a Circuit Judge based at Croydon Crown Court (where I sat 30 years ago as a Crown Court Recorder), retires today. Continue reading “Judge John Tanzer retires: his massive contribution to Judicial I.T.”
Henry Brooke 