Personal injury lawyer, Patrick Allen, senior partner at Hodge, Jones & Allen LLP, detects four major changes since the Jackson and legal aid reforms, in an article in this week’s NLJ. They are: the inability of many firms to make a profit in the new climate, leading to closures and takeovers, therefore less choice for clients and many good firms forced out of business; clients suffering substantial deductions from damages; the possibility that firms will abandon the civil justice system altogether; and a substantial justice gap.
27 February 2015
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MOVERS & SHAKERS
Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly
Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team
Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees
Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees
Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron
Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes
NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
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