As if moving home weren’t stressful enough anyway: finding a house, having your offer accepted, selling your house, getting your mortgage approved, packing up your life, hoping everyone else in more…

It is a little unfortunate that as calls for an ‘NHS Direct for law’ grow louder, the real thing is being broken up and auctioned off to the highest bidder, more…

A government in denial, changing the very laws which currently allow ‘access to justice’, no matter how deep their pockets. A junior minister championing those reforms who has investments in more…

A house purchase is delayed because the seller’s conveyancer loses some paperwork, writes Steve Brooker.  A victim of a violent attack is treated abusively by prosecuting counsel.  Beneficiaries are denied more…

Legal publisher LexisNexis asked their lawyers to nominate 10 ‘landmark’ legal cases that have taken place during HM’s reign, apparently to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Their imaginative team came more…

A week after Lady Justice Hallett warned against her courtroom be ‘turned into a circus’ – see HERE – and the circus turned up to the Royal Courts of Justice. more…

Join the Justice Gap team for the London Legal Walk, which takes place after work on Monday 21st May 2012. Thanks to Amanda Bancroft who writes Beneath the Wig blog more…

The House of Lords’ constitution committee today published a report calling for ‘a more diverse judiciary’ to ‘improve public trust and confidence’ including the possibility for targets for female and more…

ADVICE GUIDE: Almost one in four complaints about lawyers relate to clients feeling ‘over-charged, confused, or surprised’ at the costs. The following guide is aimed at consumers to make sure more…

One in five psychologists instructed as expert witness in the family courts was deemed ‘inadequately qualified for the role’, in a new report out today. Evaluating Expert Witness Psychological Reports: more…

In January the president of the solicitors’ representative body, the Law Society, John Wotton caused a bit of a kerfuffle with his prediction that, sooner or later, the distinction between more…

A new paper by the independent judicial body the Civil Justice Council on unrepresented litigants has predicted that the number of those unfortunate enough to come before the courts without more…

So a bunch of barristers get together in a London hotel. What does that mean to Joe Public? One assumes the immediate reaction would be from an ordinary person that more…