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Impunity - The Good News And The Bad
By
Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director
Impunity
not only denies justice to victims of human rights abuses
and their families, it sends out a message to others
that they will not be brought to trial for some of the
worst crimes known to humanity. 
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Are You In A Minority?
Jeremy Rowe
Jeremy Rowe,
senior manager in the Forensic Department at Pierce Chartered
Accountants examines some problems and issues facing minority
shareholders involved in limited companies disputes. |
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The Audit Commission's Lead For Criminal Justice Work
In The Southern Region
Kit Harbottle looks at the opportunities
and challenges facing Local Criminal Justice Boards
In
April 2003, forty two Local Criminal Justice Boards
(LCJBs) were established in England and Wales, replacing
the former Area Criminal Justice Strategy Committees. |
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Guidance For Experts In Criminal Trials
By Mark Solon, Solicitor, Bond
Solon Training
Experts currently
have very little guidance in the criminal courts, unlike
their counterparts in civil courts. The Civil Procedure
Rules came into force in 1999 and give thorough guidance
in Part 35, Practice Directions and Protocols which set
out the role of the expert |
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Will An Expert Win Your Case For You?
By
Edward J Allen, Senior Partner at E J Allen & Associates
Two recent articles in the Barrister Magazine prompted
me to burst into print.
The first was in Issue 16 and is entitled 'Experts under
the Spotlight?' by Brian Thompson, Secretary of the
Expert Witness Institute, and the second was in Issue
17, 'Experts for Hire' by Bill Braithwaite QC.
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Immigration Detention: Prison Or Protection
By Katherine Worthington, Human
Rights Policy Intern, JUSTICE
"I spent
many years in prison being tortured. I was forced to flee
here. Shouldn't a human being have a square foot of earth
to live on in peace? I don't know what I have to do anymore
for my situation to be resolved so I can live like a human
being." |
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Alarming Proposals For Immigration And Criminal Legal
Aid
Richard Miller. Director LAPG
Shortly before
the Lord Chancellor's Department was replaced by the Department
for Constitutional. |
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What's In A Name?
BY Nony Ardill Policy Director
Legal Action Group
Those who
support the idea of a fully-fledged ministry of justice
have been left frustrated by the sense of a 'near miss',
and believe that the Prime Minister should have taken
a more radical approach in June. |
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Pensions: Single Payments Can Ease The Way
By Abigail Morrison, Marketing
Development Manager Standard Life
We should
all know by now that we need to make sufficient pension
provision for our retirement. It is becoming increasingly
apparent we cannot rely on the state to keep us in the
style to which we are accustomed. |
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CFAs: It Is Not Comfortable For Lawyers To Gamble With
Their Own Fees
By Russell Wallman Director of
Strategic Policy The Law Society
Fear of the
unknown has meant that since their inception, CFAs have
been bedevilled by excessive regulatory requirements.
These were introduced primarily because of a wish to compromise
with the most conservative elements of the legal professions
who opposed conditional fees in principle. |
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