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  • ACCESS TO JUSTICE
    • Hackney Law Centre: (1) Housing cases
    • The Manchester bomb: Lawyers to the rescue
    • My 2007 lecture on Pro Bono Legal Services
    • Possession hearings & the closure of Lambeth County Court
    • The North Kensington Law Centre and Grenfell Tower
    • My talk at the Hackney Law Centre
  • BACH COMMISSION
    • The Bach Report: (1) Its message
      • The Bach Report: (2) My article for the Gazette
      • The Bach Report: (2A) Two speeches at the launch of the report
      • The Bach Report: (3) The use of technology
      • The Bach Report: (4) Legal aid lawyers & the effect of LASPO
      • The Bach Report: (5) Family Law
      • The Bach Report: (6) The effect of the cuts on Legal Aid Providers
      • The Bach Report: (7) Criminal Justice
      • The Bach Report (8) Housing Law
      • The Bach report: (9) Cost implications and potential savings
      • The Bach Report: (10) Welfare benefits
      • The Bach Report: (11) Immigration law
      • The Bach Report: (12) The legal aid gateway telephone service
      • The Bach Report: (13) Exceptional case funding
      • The Bach Report: (14) Legal representation at inquests
      • The Bach Report: (15) The rights of children to access to justice
      • The Bach Report: (16) Judicial Review
      • The Bach Report: (17) Law centres and the law centres network
      • The Bach Report: (18) Advice services
      • The Bach Report: (19) Public legal education
    • The new Access to Justice Commission: Update 8 (The Society of Labour Lawyers)
      • The new Access to Justice Commission: Update 7 (The Bar Council)
      • The new Access to Justice Commission: Update 6 (The Law Society)
      • The new Access to Justice Commission: Update 5 (Roger Smith)
      • The new Access to Justice Commission: Update 4 (Professor Susskind)
      • The new Access to Justice Commission: Update 3 [revised] (Lord Low & Steve Hynes’ evidence)
      • The new Access to Justice Commission: Update 2
      • The new Access to Justice Commission: Update 1
      • The Bach Commission: Stories of Injustice (Volume 1)
      • The Bach Commission: Stories of Injustice (Volume 2)
  • DIVERSITY
    • Cross-cultural communication at the Bar: then and now
    • Improving race relations at the Bar: What we achieved 25 years ago
    • Some thoughts about the Lammy Report
    • David Lammy’s Review of Criminal Justice: My Talk on Sentencing in 1993
    • Her Honour Judge Anuja Ravindra Dhir
    • A Visit to Canada: Canadian Judicial Education in 1993
    • The 1993 Kapila Lecture
    • Two fine lawyers: (2) Courtenay Griffiths QC
    • Gender Equality and the Judiciary: A Commonwealth Perspective
      • A need for greater empathy
      • A need for greater empathy (2)
  • FALSE ACCUSATIONS
    • Stories of Injustice (19)
    • Some comments on my last blog (Stories of Injustice No 19)
    • Further comments on Stories of Injustice No 19
    • Stories of Injustice (20)
  • HUMAN RIGHTS
    • The travel ban litigation: Peculiar happenings in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
      • President Trump and the Courts: the advantages of transparency
  • IT AND THE LAW
    • Collection of old papers on IT and the Law
    • IT and the Courts: Treasury inertia for 15 years
    • Judge John Tanzer retires: his massive contribution to Judicial I.T.
    • The Online Court Hackathon
    • The Digital Court System – the future has arrived
    • The new AdviceLocal postcode tool
  • JUDGMENTS
    • Judgments: the best opening lines – and a few more
    • Lord Denning’s unique prose style: 34 more examples
    • Miscellany of the Best Opening Lines etc – Part 2
    • Opening Lines, Part III: Richard III and a Leicester car park
    • Opening lines & memorable passages in judgments – Part IV
    • Memorable judgments (5): When is a decision not a decision?
    • Judgments Part VI: Opening lines & memorable passages
  • LASPO REVIEW
    • The LASPO Review: (1) My recent talk about the Bach Commission’s report on the Right to Justice
    • The LASPO Review: (2) My address to the Bar Conference
  • LAW REFORM
    • The Law Commission and the protection of official data
      • The origins of the statutory discount rate for lump sum personal injury awards
      • What is the meaning of the discount rate and why does it matter?
      • The discount rate: some defects in the Ministry’s Consultation Paper
  • LEGAL AID
    • Rights and the Legal Aid calamity – A brand new website
  • LEGAL HISTORY
    • The Assize Judges in a Garrison Town
    • Sitting Long Hours
    • The Gold Chain of the Lord Chief Justice
    • Mourning Bands and Weepers
    • The junior barrister’s gown
    • Mr Justice Darling: “an impudent little man in horsehair”
    • The last Canadian case in the Privy Council (1)
      • The last Canadian case in the Privy Council (2)
  • LEGAL MATTERS
    • Infographic: Understanding Lasting Powers of Attorney
    • All’s well that ends well – three years late
    • The miserable state of criminal justice
    • The appointment of the new Lord Chief Justice
      • Lord Burnett’s speech to the Criminal Cases Review Commission
    • Failures in prosecution disclosure
  • LIFE AND DEATH
    • Four reflections on the Charlie Gard case
    • My Talk about the Conjoined Twins case
    • The Conjoined Twins Case
  • MEDIATION
    • Learning to be a mediator: what I wrote in 2007
      • Mediation and Inheritance Disputes
      • The Tutu Foundation UK
      • The cost of the NHSLA’s refusals to mediate
      • The role of Mediation in Planning and Environmental Disputes
  • MEMORIES
    • My Welsh Grandfather
    • National Service 60 years ago: (1) Egypt and Libya
      • National Service 60 years ago: (2) Cyprus
    • Lord Denning and I: (1) The Cumberland Lodge weekends
      • Lord Denning and I (2): 1962-1972
      • Lord Denning and I: (3) The Final Years
    • Law and Practice in the 1960s
      • Law and Practice in the 1960s: (1) Chambers at 2 Crown Office Row
      • Law and practice in the 1960s: (2) Public law
      • Law and practice in the 1960s: (3) Family Law (1964-1977)
      • Law and Practice in the 1960s: (4) Crime (including driving offences)
    • Sir Nicholas Wall
    • Another memory of Lord Denning in his old age
  • MISCELLANEA
    • Judges and vicarious trauma
    • A need for greater empathy (2)
  • MUSINGS
    • Some musings about my blogs – 18 months on
    • Brexit musings: (1) The cost of withdrawal
    • A need for greater empathy
  • NON-LEGAL MATTERS
    • Our Golden Wedding
    • The Tryweryn Affair – or how Liverpool “stole” Welsh water
      • Cecil Parkinson and Dove Cottage
      • Peter Rawlinson’s memoirs (2): Mr Macmillan, my father and Stephen Ward
      • Shakespeare in Middle Temple Hall
        • 1. Shakespeare and the law
        • 2. Shakespeare and justice
        • 3. Shakespeare and civil rights
        • 4. Shakespeare and legal language
  • PIPs
    • Stories of Injustice (9): LASPO and the cuts
    • De Profundis: A tale of misery from the front line
    • Personal Independence Payments (PIPs): Help from Law for Life & Citizens Advice
    • More about PIPs: The pipinfo website
    • PIPs and ESAs: Another Disgraceful Story
    • Mandatory reconsiderations and the rule of law
      • Mandatory reconsiderations: (2) Muddled language
      • 19 Comments on my blogs on Mandatory Reconsiderations
    • PIPs again: An existence, not a life at the age of 49
    • PIPs: A blind woman’s experience
    • PIPs: Injustice averted – a real success story
    • Poor decision-making, Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) and PIP appeals
    • PIPs: My evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee
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Category: NON-LEGAL MATTERS

Our Golden Wedding

On April 16, 2016 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERS6 Comments

It is our Golden Wedding Day today. Continue reading “Our Golden Wedding” →

Peter Rawlinson’s memoirs (2): Mr Macmillan, my father and Stephen Ward

On February 20, 2016February 22, 2016 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERSLeave a comment

In my first blog in this series I wrote about a couple of features of Peter Rawlinson’s memoirs[1] that caught my eye for their relevance to the state of English justice today. Continue reading “Peter Rawlinson’s memoirs (2): Mr Macmillan, my father and Stephen Ward” →

Cecil Parkinson and Dove Cottage

On January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERS1 Comment

 

Much has been written in the obituary columns about the political career of Cecil Parkinson, who died yesterday. Continue reading “Cecil Parkinson and Dove Cottage” →

4. Shakespeare and legal language

On November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERS2 Comments

The third and final part (consisting of five readings) of the evening in Middle Temple Hall on 16th November 2015 Continue reading “4. Shakespeare and legal language” →

3. Shakespeare and civil rights

On November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERSLeave a comment

The second part (consisting of four readings) of the evening in Middle Temple Hall on 16th November 2015 Continue reading “3. Shakespeare and civil rights” →

2. Shakespeare and justice

On November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERSLeave a comment

The first part (consisting of three readings) of the evening in Middle Temple Hall on 16th November 2015 Continue reading “2. Shakespeare and justice” →

1. Shakespeare and the law

On November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERS1 Comment

I am a patron of Peace Brigades International (UK) and the president of its Lawyers’ Advisory Committee. Continue reading “1. Shakespeare and the law” →

Lincoln and Magna Carta

On November 9, 2015November 9, 2015 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERSLeave a comment

Last weekend I spent two days at Lincoln, attending a historical conference, Continue reading “Lincoln and Magna Carta” →

The Tryweryn Affair – or how Liverpool “stole” Welsh water

On October 22, 2015October 24, 2015 By Henry BrookeIn NON-LEGAL MATTERSLeave a comment

Last Monday night BBC Wales showed a 30-minute film about the Tryweryn affair. It brought back many memories.    Continue reading “The Tryweryn Affair – or how Liverpool “stole” Welsh water” →

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