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”
Category: ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Mandatory reconsiderations: (2) Muddled language
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”
Mandatory reconsiderations and the rule of law
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”
Toynbee Hall & immigration advice
The Toynbee Hall Free Legal Advice Centre has been giving advice to East Londoners for more than 100 years. Continue reading “Toynbee Hall & immigration advice”
Rights and the Legal Aid calamity – A brand new website
I am always pleased when I receive messages from people who appreciate what I have written in some of these blogs. Continue reading “Rights and the Legal Aid calamity – A brand new website”
Bach Commission Interim Report: Press Release
The Access to Justice section of this site contains a number of reports of the oral evidence which Lord Bach’s Access to Justice Commission, of which I am a member, received in the first four months of this year. Continue reading “Bach Commission Interim Report: Press Release”
Inheritance tax: a useful infographic
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”
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”
Henry Brooke 