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The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman explains his combined complaints service against government and public organisations compared with those against the National Health Service. He speaks of the inevitable backlog created by the Covid pandemic and how his organisation expects…
Solicitors Regulation Authority v Soophia Khan & ors [2022] EWHC 45 (Ch) is a case in which a solicitor was sentenced to a term of six months' imprisonment for failing to comply with two court orders to deliver up court…
The Court of Appeal Civil Division considers the applicable principles for judicial review of decisions made by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. In this case the Applicant had been convicted of murder and unsuccessfully appealed to the Court of Appeal…
Maurice MacSweeney from Harbour Litigation Funding explains litigation funding, damages based agreements and the help that is available for litigants. He talks about the availability of funding for solicitors' firms, who may be handling a number of cases, as well…
Ian Forrester QC LLD, born in Glasgow and the United Kingdom's last judge at the General Court of the European Union before Brexit, has practised law in New York, London and Brussels. He arrived in Brussels in 1973 as…
The tale of Christopher Craig (aged 16) who shot a policeman in 1952 in the course of burgling a warehouse, and Derek Bentley (aged 19) who suffered the death penalty for the act his friend committed. In this case the…
His Honour Nigel Lithman QC retired as a Circuit Judge just a few months ago and has just released his book "Nothing Like the Truth: The Trials and Tribulations." In his engaging style, Nigel Lithman tells Baines Law about the…
Listen in this episode to the tale of the Italian Banker linked with the Vatican and notorious P2 Masonic Lodge found hanging at London's Blackfriars Bridge. Was it suicide or was it murder? The first inquest recorded a verdict of…
How was it that the death of a great dane in a remote part of the West Country sparked a political scandal and led to the Old Bailey trial of Jeremy Thorpe, then leader of the Liberal Party. Was a…
What were the swinging sixties like? Was it all drugs and rock'n'roll, and did the leading pop groups at the time engender a culture of loose living? Discover how the establishment sought to defend the perceived morals of the time…