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17 July 2015 / David Greene
Issue: 7661 / Categories: Opinion
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Mixed messages

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Can a “one nation civil justice process” become a reality in a budget restricted world? David Greene has his doubts

Patrick Allen writes stridently and with passion of the government’s policies and the effect on the justice process, particularly now that the Conservative Chancellor is free of the bonds of marriage to the Liberals (see “The end for civil legal aid?” NLJ, 10 July 2015, p 6 & online at www.newlawjournal.co.uk ).

We have now had two public occasions to gain a measure of the new Government’s approach to both civil and criminal justice—the Lord Chancellor’s speech at the Legatum Institute last month, and the Chancellor’s summer budget.

In his speech—“What does a one nation justice policy look like?”—Michael Gove asserted to paint a picture of the Disraeli proposition of “One Nation Conservatism” as applied to the justice process both in crime and civil justice. I leave to sister publications to comment on the former although we should in no way regard them as unrelated. The changes in criminal justice and the reaction grab the headlines but changes in civil justice affect a greater

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