Legal aid bill: government suffers defeats in the Lords The government has been defeated in six key votes during the first two days of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill’s report stage, and has been forced into offering concessions in several other important areas. During the first day of debate on […]
Month: March 2012
Press Release – 6 March 2012 We represent Charles Spiropoulos in proceedings at the Southwark Crown Court where he is charged with a number of others with one count of conspiracy to defraud by false representation, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977. Mr Spiropoulos was a solicitor and a partner at […]
Multi-million pound drug smuggler is jailed for 30 years 05 March 2012 A man who is believed to be responsible for smuggling hundreds of millions of pounds worth of drugs into the UK was jailed for 30 years on Friday 2 March, following an investigation by UKBA and Customs & Excise officers. Adegboyega Adeniji, aged […]
90% of interpreters boycott new ‘flawed’ court system A survey, commissioned by the campaign group Interpreters for Justice, states that 90% of 1,206 interpreters who took part in the online survey have not and will not register for the new system administered by Applied Language Solutions (ALS). Members of the Association of Police and […]
The new list of Queen’s Counsel appointments for the 2011-2012 year period has now been published. The 88 appointed this year included: 23 women applicants (58% of the 40 who applied). In the competition in 2010-11, 27 women (66% of the 41 who applied) were appointed. 6 applicants who declared an ethnic origin other […]
