I recently published a blog about the lady I had been able to help with her challenge to a DWP’s decision (on mandatory reconsideration), which denied her the enhanced mobility component of her PIP to which she was entitled. Continue reading “Personal Independence Payments (PIPs): Help from Law for Life & Citizens Advice”
One important feature of the evidence given to the Bach Commission on Access to Justice was the need to develop and use simple applications of modern technology as a tool to help lay people, advice services and law centres to access clear expositions of modern law expressed in terms non-lawyers can readily understand. Continue reading “Inheritance tax: a useful infographic”
Readers of my blogs will have seen my continuing interest in developments of applied I.T. in the court system, and in much greater collaboration between judges, senior court managers and Government in developing affordable judicial services in a time of ever-quickening change. Continue reading “Sufficient Resources for the Courts and the Judiciary”
Readers of my blogs will remember that I have expressed great concern about the injustices that are regularly perpetrated by agents of the Department of Work and Pensions Continue reading “PIPs: Injustice averted – a real success story”
The Rt Hon Liz Truss, Lord Chancellor, September 2016:
“We live in a society where you can apply for a mortgage or a job online, you can do your weekly shop from your home, plan holidays, weddings and parties on the internet. It’s high time our courts caught up.” Continue reading “IT and the Courts: Treasury inertia for 15 years”
Readers of these blogs may have noticed that I have not posted anything new for some time. Continue reading “Stories of Injustice (20)”
I have now received three further stories. Continue reading “Further comments on Stories of Injustice No 19”
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”
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)”
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)”
Henry Brooke 