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How Others See Us in the US
Roger Smith, of the UK organization Justice, has a guest blog on Richard Moorhead’s Lawyer Blog, on “The internet and the provision of legal advice.” It takes a somewhat pessimistic view of what has been achieved. Here are his observations … Continue reading
UK Impact of Litigants in Person (SRLs to the US)
The UK Law Gazette has a good (if anxious) roundup article on the impact of the self-represented on the courts in the UK, with a focus on the likely impact of the looming legal aid cuts.
Posted in Judicial Ethics, Self-Help Services
Tagged UK
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Upside Down Legal Aid Politics in the UK
The UK’s Lord Tebbit was one of Thatcher’s major allies. Yet here he is reported in the Guardian under the headline: Lord Tebbit in fight to save legal aid for children’s medical cases. He appears to be one of the … Continue reading
Non-Lawyer Assistance in the Courtroom — the UK Model
Most of us in the US are unaware of a fascinating approach that the UK (and indeed most Commonwealth countries) use to assist in access to justice for those without lawyers. It is an approach that permits non-lawyers to sit … Continue reading
UK Judge on the State of Access to Justice
Lord Justice Moses is a British Appellate Court Judge. He recently gave an astonishingly powerful and blunt speech to the Public Law Project. Thanks to the fine international Access to Justice Blog for the catch. For those of us in … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally
Tagged UK
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Civil Justice Council of England and Wales Report and Recommendations on Self-Represented Litigants
As reported by Richard Moorhead, the Civil Justice Council has issued its report on how to respond to the increase in self-represented litigants expected in England and Wales as a result of the massive legal aid cutbacks. The recommendations, as … Continue reading
Deregulation Versus De-monopolizing — A Complex Debate Just Begining
There has been substantially more attention in the blogsphere to the deregulation of the legal profession. See, e.g. the Wall St. Journal, law librarian blog, elawyering blog. All are worth reading. But I would urge attention to the difference between … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Systematic Change
Tagged Deregulaton, Monopoly, UK
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Self-Represented Litigants: Litterature Review Conducted in UK
The UK Ministry of Justice has completed a literature review about self-represented litigants (whom they call “Litigants in person.”) The review included international sources, at least as to formal research. The overall conclusions: While some good quality evidence existed, … Continue reading
Posted in Judicial Ethics, Research and Evalation, Self-Help Services, SRL Statistics
Tagged UK
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Legal Services at the Mall — the UK Model
As you probably know in a general way, the UK is deregulating certain aspects of the legal profession. But you may not know how fast things are changing. Here is one big consequence reported on the Legal Futures Blog. The … Continue reading
Richard Moorhead asks: “Hackgate, Where Were The Lawyers?”
Richard Moorhead nails it again in his blog: US scandals (Watergate, Savings and Loan, Enron and latterly Lehman) have tended to prompt the question: where were the lawyers? Indeed, Watergate is widely credited with being the first crisis to prompt … Continue reading
Posted in Legal Ethics
Tagged UK
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The UK Legal Aid Cuts
Richard Moorhead is a wise and reflective observer of the access to justice world, focusing on the UK. His latest blog post (well worth reading in full) brings both informtion and perspective on the very depressing news out of the … Continue reading
UK Court Criticizes Govt for Sectetly Trying to Block UK Legal Aid Funding for Anti-Torure Cases: Court Overturns Standing Regulations
US readers may find that wrapping our minds around this one takes a bit of effort. In a recent case, a British court has criticized the government for secretly trying to block legal aid funding for cases that challenged torture, … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, International Models, Legal Aid
Tagged Public Interest, Standing, UK
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UK Considers Possible Negative Impact on Court Operations of Legal Aid Cuts. Discussion of “Polluter Pays”
As you may know, UK legal aid is facing massive budget cuts. Since even the civil system is an entitlement one (in dramatic contrast to the US), the means the new government (Conservative and Liberal Democratic, both took more than … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Issues, Funding, Research and Evalation
Tagged UK
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Two Year Law Degree — UK Experiment and Questions for US Legal Education
Richard Moorhead, in his LawyerWatch blog discusses the new UK two year law degree offered by the College of Law, which was originally founded by the law society (bar association). Most of the UK discussion seems to be about the … Continue reading
Please Take a Good Look at Richard Moorhead’s UK LawyerWatch Blog
For anyone interested in UK access to justice perspectives and research, I strongly recommend Richard Moorhead’s LawyerWatch. Richard is at the University of Cardiff, and one of the most highly respected researchers in UK in access to justice. Here are … Continue reading
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