PI Adverts in NHS Hospitals: Ban Won’t Work

by Carter Moore on January 26, 2012

The government has been advised that banning advertisements for personal injury solicitors and claim management companies in NHS hospitals is impractical and not viable. Simon Burns, health minister, told NHS hospitals that it was ‘not acceptable’ for them to display advertisements for personal injury law firms. This statement came as a result of 29 MPs [...]

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Age Of Criminal Responsibility To Be Increased?

by Carter Moore on January 18, 2012

Currently in England and Wales, the age of criminal responsibility is 10 years old. In a think tank set up by Iain Duncan Smith, it has been said today that the age of criminal responsibility should be increased to 12 years old. This increase in age applies to any criminal offence ranging from shoplifting to [...]

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Clinical Negligence Legal Aid Cuts Will Cost the NHS

by Carter Moore January 9, 2012Personal Injury

In a report, ‘Unintended Consequences: the costs of the government’s legal aid reforms’, written by Dr Graham Cookson of King’s College, it has been revealed that the government’s plans to cut Legal Aid in clinical negligence cases could end up costing the NHS greatly. The government’s Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill reported [...]

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Lynette White Case: UK’s Biggest Trial of Police Officers

by Carter Moore December 1, 2011Criminal Law

Lynette White, a prostitute from Cardiff, was found murdered in 1988. A trial into eight police officers has just collapsed after the judge said a fair hearing could not be had. The former police officers were on trial for the wrongful conviction of three men for this murder. The eight South Wales police men were [...]

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The Leveson Inquiry: Christopher Jeffries

by Carter Moore November 30, 2011Criminal Law

Christopher Jeffries was wrongly accused for the murder of Joanna Yeates in 2010. He gave his statement yesterday in the Leveson Inquiry which is being heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. He told how the media vilified him and determined that he was guilty of the murder which he did in fact [...]

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Fees in the Employment Tribunal

by Carter Moore November 28, 2011Employment Law

Yesterday, the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, announced that the government thinks there “should be a cost to starting a tribunal case”. I disagree. Firstly, access to justice is a fundamental principle. It’s at risk here because people who’ve just lost their jobs are unlikely to be able to pay anything up front. So, even if they think [...]

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BBC Radio 4 Interview for ‘Unreliable Evidence’

by Carter Moore November 9, 2011Criminal Law

Jeremy Moore was recently interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Unreliable Evidence’ entitled ‘The Lawyer’s Dilemma: Defending the Guilty, Suing the Innocent’. The programme investigated the dilemmas a solicitor will face when defending a client accused of a serious crime including rape and murder. It also gained insight into how a lawyer deals with [...]

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Leaked Downing Street Report Could Give Employers the Right to Dismiss Unproductive Workers

by Carter Moore November 1, 2011Legal News

A leaked Downing Street report states that employers should have the right to sack unproductive employees without any explanation. Employment law in the UK was described by Downing Street as ‘terrible’ and this report is one of the new changes they wish to put in place in order to improve, in their eyes, a system [...]

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Changes to Self Defence Laws

by Carter Moore October 31, 2011Legal News

Currently, the law states that a person can only defend themselves, if an intruder is in their home, if they genuinely fear for their life or the life of their family. This law also puts the duty of retreating from an intruder on the homeowner and this is to be scrapped as well. In a [...]

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Fraud Data Access to be given to Claimant Solicitors

by Carter Moore October 28, 2011Legal News

In order to determine whether or not a potential claim is spurious, claimant solicitors will be given access to fraud records. Solicitors acting for claimants will have the same access to information as motor insurers following a meeting between the insurance industry and claimant solicitors in order to try and tackle the £350m annual bill [...]

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