When Lord Bach’s Commission received evidence last year, we were told again and again about the damage that was being done because the Coaltion Government stopped any grants of legal aid for frontline “legal help” on benefits and housing problems, given at a small fixed fee, long before problems escalated into the crises that are created by evictions and homelessness. Continue reading “Hackney Law Centre: (1) Housing cases”
By the end of the first year of LASPO the number of active law centres had gone down in seven years from 63 to 45. Continue reading “The Southwark Law Centre and Refugee Week”
In a blog I have just published about the pro bono initiative in Manchester, I wrote that I would be republishing on this site the lecture I gave at the Nottingham Law School during Pro Bono Week on 15 November 2007, in order to put this excellent Manchester initiative in a wider historical setting. Continue reading “My 2007 lecture on Pro Bono Legal Services”
The Manchester Law Society published this notice two days ago: Continue reading “The Manchester bomb: Lawyers to the rescue”
The Bar Council has now published its ”Manifesto for Justice” in the context of the current General Election Campaign. Continue reading “The miserable state of criminal justice”
When the DWP recently issued what turned out to be a misleading answer to a Freedom of Information request, I commented on it in strong terms before it emerged that the department didn’t mean what it had said: Continue reading “19 Comments on my blogs on Mandatory Reconsiderations”
Two days ago I published a blog in which I used strong language to criticise what the Department of Work and Pensions had said in reply to a recent Freedom of Information request. Continue reading “Mandatory reconsiderations: (2) Muddled language”
Skanderbeg is the Albanian national hero. Continue reading “A Knight of the Order of Skanderbeg”
Note: This should now be read alongside my next blog on Muddled language, as it appears that the DWP did not mean what it said in answer to the FOI request.
From time to time I have been invited to help seriously disabled people attain their rights after their applications for appropriate benefits have been turned down by agents appointed by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). Continue reading “Mandatory reconsiderations and the rule of law”
Although I do not pretend to be an expert on EU law, I am writing this blog in an effort to explain in fairly simple terms some of the issues surrounding Brexit that are currently being canvassed by way of megaphone diplomacy. Continue reading “Brexit musings: (1) The cost of withdrawal”
Henry Brooke 