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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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