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27 May 2022
Issue: 7980 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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NLJ this week: Passing judgment on the Ministry of Justice

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Fifteen years on from the creation of the Ministry of Justice, we are sleepwalking into an existential crisis on the rule of law

This is the alarming assertion from Roger Smith, NLJ columnist, solicitor and legal thinker, in this week’s NLJ.

Smith sets out his case, noting alarm bells were ringing from the start. He questions the scope of remit of the department, and cites criticism from various reports.

He writes: ‘The Ministry of Justice has manifestly not been very good at delivery. But should it really be in that business at all?’ 

Issue: 7980 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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