In my piece about David Copperfield, I described the institution called Doctors’ Commons and how its demise had coincided with the enactment of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857. Continue reading “Charles Dickens and the Law: (5) Hard Times”
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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”
The History of Legal Aid – 1945 to 2010
By Sir Henry Brooke[1]
Between May and July 2016 I was involved in the task of sorting out and reordering the large quantity of valuable information which came to Lord Bach’s Access to Justice Commission in response to its Call for Written Evidence. Continue reading “The History of Legal Aid – 1945 to 2010”
BAILII: The British & Irish Legal Information Institute
I am subdividing the papers under the title of IT and the Law, so as to show which of them were originally written some time ago. Continue reading “BAILII: The British & Irish Legal Information Institute”
Henry Brooke 