REPORT: Sam Hallam was ‘the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice’, writes Kim Evans. So said Henry Blaxland QC in his opening address to the Court of Appeal today. more…

Sam Hallam was freed on bail today after the prosecution said it would not oppose his appeal against the conviction. Pic: Sam Hallam leaving court today (Kim Evans) Read Kim more…

‘It made me feel furious and totally helpless that someone could easily take my photo and set up a fake account in my name pretending to be me. The reaction more…

Broadcasters welcomed the inclusion in the Queen’s speech of the promise of legislation to allow them to film court proceedings. In a joint statement from Sky News, ITN and the more…

ANALYSIS: It’s been a long time coming – some 14 years, in fact – but earlier today a circuit judge at Oxford County Court handed down his judgment on a more…

Defence firms ‘should make it clear to legal aid clients how their publicly funded status affects the service they get’, according to a leading solicitor advocate. ‘It’s a myth that more…

Ministers are to announce plans to allow magistrates to sit on their own in community centres or police stations in a bid to speed up justice. According to a report 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…

TICKETS AVAILABLE: As part of the Justice Gap, series we are teaming up for a second year with the Prisoners Advice Service to host their annual debate. You can read more…

The day before district judge Richard Chapman talks to the JusticeGap is a typically frantic day at Telford County Court. On his list, there were 12 ‘Children Act’ cases featuring more…

‘My brother, Eddie Gilfoyle has just spent 18 years in prison for something he didn’t do. 18 years is a long time in prison if you are guilty. If you more…

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012 received Royal Assent today. The legislation will remove £350m from the £2.2bn legal aid budget by removing entire areas more…

A High Court judge yesterday blamed a ‘Hello magazine’ culture to marriage for fuelling a dramatic rise in divorce.  Sir Paul Coleridge, who sits in the Family Division, speaking on more…

The High Court last week ordered a toddler be returned to her parents after she was removed at birth following the death of her brother in 2009 bringing to an more…

ANALYSIS. Kim Evans on three important events looking at the investigation of miscarriages of justice in the last three weeks. ‘Whilst there are problems with the Criminal Case Review Commission more…

ANALYSIS: Michael Zander QC on whether the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) lives up to what the Runciman Royal Commission on Criminal Justice envisaged. This is a paper that Prof more…

BBC, ITN and Sky are pushing to overturn the ban on cameras in courtrooms. The broadcasters are joint signatories to a letter calling for the provision to be included in more…

The number of people convicted of cruelty and neglect to animals rose by nearly a quarter last year, according to RSPCA figures announced today. You can read Dr Angus Nurse more…

ANALYSIS: Felicity Gerry considers how courts treat vulnerable defendants. Since the trial of Venables and Thompson where two children were tried in an adult court for the murder of James more…

Ministers backed down on controversial plans to make it harder for victims of domestic violence to claim legal aid; but otherwise refused to bow to all but three of the more…

As Billy Mills stood on the steps of the Edinburgh Court of Criminal Appeal in March 2009, he was overcome with relief as the words of Lord Gill echoed in more…

ADVICE GUIDE: Rita Jackson explains what happens if you break the terms of a mortgage possession order. For Rita’s guide to what to do if you are struggling with your more…

ANALYSIS: The UK currently has the most privatised prison system in Europe, writes Michael Teague. Is privatisation the answer to our overcrowded prison system? Pic credit: Alberto. From April 2012, more…

ANALYSIS: Here’s a paradox, writes Francis FitzGibbon: in the same week, the government says it wants more powers to scrutinize your phone calls and online communications, it insists on less more…

GARETH PEIRCE: ‘It is not the first time in history that the Court of Appeal has been an impediment to cases being reopened. There have been battles in the past more…

LIVE TWEETING AND BLOGGING  from the courts today and tomorrow. Jon Robins (@JusticeGap) is taking part in the Guardian Live Justice project this week. On April 3rd Jon is reporting more…

The Co-operative has become the first major consumer brand to be licensed by the solicitors’ regulatory body to offer the full range of high street legal services. Co-operative Legal Services 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…

The Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission today hammer another nail in the coffin of the ailing civil recovery industry, when they publish a joint report to Parliament on redress more…

An innovative video conferencing scheme linking lawyers to the public, free to use and provided by Instant Law went live in an Oxford community centre today. As reported before HERE, 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…

FEATURE: Kim Evans reports on the tragic death of a young father after a police chase. In the early hours of the 18th May 2008, 22-year-old Lee Lewis made a more…

ADVICE GUIDE: Rita Jackson advises you on what to do if you are struggling with your mortgage repayments and fear that you might lose your home. This guide relates to more…

‘Cost’ was the single most common cause of complaints from clients about their lawyers, according to a new report published Legal Ombudsman. It found that in ‘20% to 25%’ of more…

ANALYSIS: The decision to award Applied Language Solutions the contract for court interpretation services has met with fierce criticism – yesterday interpreters demonstrated outside the House of Commons. Marc Starr, more…

Yvette Livingstone is the mother of six-year old Annie, who was left with severe life-long disabilities after a series of medical blunders. Yvette argues Annie’s legal action for compensation could 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…

OPEN JUSTICE: You can read the JusticeGap guide to court reporting below. The guide was prepared to tie in with a Scottish initiative called Open Justice week  which aimed to more…

Cutting costs was damaging Crown Court cases, according to a report into the Crown Prosecution Service. Michael Fuller, chief inspector of Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), warned that more…

Last year, the legal action involving 100 families seeking compensation on behalf of their children against the anti-convulsant Epilim came to a premature end, writes Janet Williams. You can read more…

The Government’s legal aid reforms Bill received another bashing at the hands of peers yesterday. The Legal Aid, Punishment and Sentencing of Offenders Bill – which aims to strip away more…

If you are interested in attending the launch for Wrongly accused. Who is responsible for investigating miscarriages of justice? let us know. WHERE: College of Law, 14 Store Street, London more…

The controversial legal aid Bill is back in the House of Lords this week, as the campaign against its planned £350m cuts are joined by faith leaders as well a more…

ANALYSIS: In the very same week that the BBC announced it was to axe Rough Justice, three Appeal Court judges quashed the murder conviction of a young man, whose wrongful more…

LATEST IN THE JUSTICE GAP SERIES OUT NOW: ‘Our system of criminal justice is not perfect,’ writes Mr Justice Sweeney in his introduction to a new collection of essays about more…

Improvements needed be made to police rape investigations, according to a new report out this week. The report by HM Inspectorates of Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service (Forging the more…

The Ministry of Justice yesterday tabled two amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. On domestic violence: Ministers have promised to ‘put it beyond doubt that more…

Warring neighbours have been warned away from resorting to the courts to sort out boundary disputes by the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal was considering a ‘protracted boundary more…

ANALYSIS. John Storer writes about the growing crisis enveloping  a controversial new contract to run court interpreter services. I live and work as a criminal defence lawyer in Boston, Lincolnshire, a more…

Next week marks the start of a potentially fascinating experiment that aims to shine some light on those under-exposed parts of the justice system. ‘Open Justice week’ is a Scottish more…

At 9.30am on Friday this week Christopher Tappin must report to Heathrow’s police station. Tappin (it was noted in this Saturday’s Times) makes ‘an improbable criminal’. Christopher Tappin is a more…

Ministers have promised a ‘major legal overhaul of the bailiff industry’ setting out ‘how ethical activity should be enshrined in law’. ‘Too many people have experienced intrusive, expensive and stressful more…

‘Society wants to know about prison life, an interesting place to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there.’ Frankie Owen, from The Little Book of Prison. You can read more…

The Prime Minister David Cameron launched his latest attack on the ‘compensation culture’ pledging to slash the £1,200 fee for lawyers on small personal injury claims. [Pic by Sehb Hundal]. more…

Judges this week retired to mull over whether a Twitter message threatening to blow up a snowbound airport ‘sky high’ was a ‘a menace to society’. Illustration by Sehb Hundal. more…

Michael Teague asks why UK penal policy is so influenced by the American experience. ‘Our Europe-leading imprisonment rate appears positively puny compared to the USA’s muscular embrace of mass incarceration. more…

Ministers have backed a ‘presumption of shared parenting’ between fathers and mothers following a relationship breakdown, flying in the face of the views of an independent review of family justice. more…

The demonization of young women was leading to a failure to secure more convictions of suspected rapists, according to Alison Saunders, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service in London. more…

Reforms of ‘no win, no fee’ will play into the hands of big business and media groups,  campaigners told peers as they debated the legal aid Bill in the House more…

Criminals are to be banned from making claims for injuries from a special fund set up to help victims of crime, according to the Guardian. Ken Clarke, the  justice secretary, more…

Fulcrum TV is looking for willing volunteers to take part in a new BBC ONE series that aims to show consumers that they have rights and can get justice for more…

Missing documents that led to the dramatic collapse of a multi-million pound police corruption trial in the Lynette White case last month have resurfaced despite claims they were shredded. You more…

The Innocence Network UK, an umbrella group for the university-based Innocence Projects set up by law students to investigate miscarriage cases, has  called for an overhaul of the CCRC and more…

David Cameron yesterday called for reform of the European Court of Human Rights to prevent it turning into ‘a small claims court’ that was  ‘swamped’ by ‘spurious’ cases. The Prime more…

Concerns are mounting over the closure of the Forensic Science Service scheduled for March 2012. In a letter to the justice secretary Ken Clarke, the Law Society predicted ‘a contraction more…

Up to four million library users will be able to access free legal advice via webcams. Birmingham and Westminster city councils are teaming up with Instant Law, which recently launched more…

The fundamental right to free legal advice for people held in police stations will not be cut as part of the package of legal reforms which threatened to remove £350m more…

New advice published aimed at people going through the courts without legal advice. The Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau, together with AdviceNow, this week publishes a series of advice more…

The law on joint enterprise was ‘so confusing for juries and courts alike’ that legislation was necessary to ensure justice for both victims and defendants and end the high number more…

‘This was a deliberate act by Merseyside Police to frame me.’ So said Eddie Gilfoyle on BBC Radio 4′s Broadcasting House at the weekend. He was convicted in 1992 of more…

The increase in claims for whiplash is the main reason for the growth of motor insurance premiums, according to a report releasd today by the House of Commons Transport Committee. more…

INTERVIEW: Michael Mansfield QC on Stephen Lawrence. Michael Mansfield’s CV serves as a reasonably exhaustive list of left wing causes célèbres spanning  three decades: miners’ strike, Birmingham Six, Jean Charles more…

The government is determined to kill off the ‘health and safety monster’ by limiting the fees lawyers can earn from personal injury claims. The Daily Telegraph reported that David Cameron more…

Explosive new evidence has been uncovered by The Times in the case of Eddie Gilfoyle, jailed for murdering his pregnant wife Paula. He was jailed for life in 1993 for more…

The government’s proposed £350 million legal aid cuts will be a false economy, according to an report by the King’s College London. The report, Unintended Consequences: the cost of the more…

Courts will be put under a legal duty to ensure that both fathers and mothers are given access to children in divorce settlements, according to a report in the Daily more…

David Norris and Gary Dobson (left and right) have been ordered to serve minimum sentences of 15 and 14 years respectively for the ‘terrible and evil’ murder of the black teenager more…

Women were told to expect ‘definitive advice’ on faulty breast implants by the end of the week by Andrew Lansley, the health secretary. Lansley told  BBC Radio 4′s Today programme more…

FEELING FESTIVE? Season’s greetings from www.thejusticegap.com here. Check out Jules Carey’s blog and also read Citizen’s Advice’s Richard Dunstan’s blog.  Illustration: Sehb Hundal  

What Price Justice?  Convicting three men of murder in 1990… about £10m. Bringing the officers who caused three innocent men to be convicted of that murder to trial in 2011… more…

ADVICE GUIDE: ‘You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. more…

A teenager who exchanged fire in a gunfight leading to the death of a passer-by died has been found guilty of murder despite not firing the fatal shot. The Supreme more…

Whistle blowers in the NHS should be ‘championed’ and not served with gagging clauses, argued the doctor who blew the whistle on the inadequacies of the department in which Baby more…

Advances in neuroscience indicate the age of criminal responsibility – 10 years in England and Wales – might be too low, according to a study. The Royal Society report (Neuroscience more…

After six years of decline in the divorce figures, they are back on the rise again. The Office for National Statistics announced yesterday that divorces rose by almost 5% in more…

Instant Law, a new law firm based in Oxford, is inviting members of the public to take part in the trial of a new service to be launched in 2012. more…

The biggest trial of police officers in British legal history collapsed after a judge ruled that they could not receive a fair hearing. Eight former police officers and two civilians more…

The most senior judge in England and Wales this week made the case for reform of ‘fiendishly difficult’ murder law. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge MPs urged to be more…

ADVICE GUIDE: Have you ever been invited along to the police station for a chat? Would you think twice if you were? Kim Evans on the police interview, and how more…

Ministers have delayed the implementation of its controversial legal aid reform programme under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill by six months. The plans would remove a more…

Pressure is mounting on the government to reconsider plans to start returning child asylum seekers to Afghanistan. The current situation is that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from the war zone are more…

Citizens Advice is supporting the campaign to reform the libel laws following its own to attempts to shine a light on what it calls ‘a secretive, exploitative and quite possibly more…

Vince Cable yesterday announced ‘the most radical reform to the employment law system for decades’ – as part of the Government’s plan for ‘cutting unnecessary demands on business while safeguarding more…

The justice secretary Ken Clarke has announced a last minute change of heart and decided to back the creation of the new office of chief coroner. It was the second more…

Only three things are wrong with the legal aid Bill’s approach to social welfare law: it is immoral, unconstitutional and crazy. ‘First of all it is immoral to pick on more…

Ministers have announced almost £17 million fund for the legal not-for-profit advice sector, as the controversial legal aid bill which looks to decimate the sector enters the House of Lords. more…

‘Making the best of a bad job.’ That was the downbeat assessment of the independent judicial body, the Civil Justice Council on its own recommendations to secure access to justice more…

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham has renewed calls for the officer who shot Mark Duggan to be suspended. Speaking in a House of Commons’ debate yesterday, Lammy said more…

The High Court has ordered the man behind the SolicitorsFromHell.co.uk which claimed to ‘name and shame’ allegedly poor lawyers to shut his site  down.  The court ordered Rick Kordowski to more…

Scrapping legal aid for employment will have ‘the perverse effect’ of increasing tribunal cases, according to a new report by Citizens Advice out today. You can read the full report 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…

ADVICE GUIDE: Kim Evans on what you need to know if you are arrested – read it here. Around one and a half million people are arrested every year in more…

In 2003 Juliet Shaw received a request from a freelance journalist writing for the Daily Mail to take part in a feature about the benefits of moving from city to more…

We are very pleased to announce that www.thejusticegap.com is part of the Guardian Legal Network. The Guardian Legal Network (in its words) ‘brings together the best blogs and sites that more…

The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that a man from who split up from his partner nearly two decades ago is not entitled to half the value of the house they more…

This week is National Pro Bono week – where lawyers put their customary reserve to one side to talk about the good works they do for nothing. According to LawWorks more…

INTERVIEW WITH THE LEGAL OMBUDSMAN: Law firms and individual lawyers will be named and shamed where there is a pattern of complaints or when it is in the public interest more…

The Office for Legal Complaints, which oversees the Legal Ombudsman, has decided to ‘name and shame’ lawyers in specific circumstances. From next year, for the first time specific information about more…

If you haven’t got a will, then you probably ought to – see the Justice Gap advice guide. November is Will Aid week where some lawyers forgo their fees donating more…

According to a survey by Citizens Advice and the family lawyers’ group Resolution, of almost 1,000 cases involving family break up over half (54%) needed to be referred to a more…

Family rights campaigners have expressed ‘serious concerns that not more was being proposed to avert care proceedings’, in their response to the Family Justice Review’s final report out today. Cathy more…

The government has pulled the plug on its national mediation helpline whilst pledging to move out-of-court initiatives ‘centre stage’. The helpline was axed as a result of a continuing decline in more…

On Saturday 29th October I returned to Dale Farm as one of a small team of legal observers, writes legal observer Susannah Mengesha. There’s an ever-growing list of required safety more…

ANALYSIS: High profile miscarriage cases attract publicity because of corrupt police or dishonest or incompetent experts, writes Maslen Merchant; however, compare those relatively few cases with the number of cases more…

Ahead of MPs debating the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill this afternoon a group of 24 national charities including Mind, Scope, the RNIB, Mencap, and Leonard Cheshire more…

Report from Dale Farm: Susannah Mengesha, a volunteer legal observer for the Dale Farm Solidarity campaign, reports on what’s going on to the residents and their supporters at the controversial travellers’ site, why it isn’t being reported by the press and why it’s important for legal observers to shine a light on what’s really happening.

Eagle-eyed shoppers on the high streets of England and Wales might have detected the first signs of a ‘revolution’ in legal services: the appearance of the first national chain of law firms.
Quality Act: The X-factor’s Stacey Solomon opens a new branch of Quality Solicitors (below).

Up to £1 million a year will be taken from prisoners’ wages to support victims of crime, ministers have said. The Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke, as part of his rehabilitation more…

KIM EVANS AND FRANCIS FITZGIBBON QC: On Wednesday, the appeals of Blackshaw and Sutcliffe, the so called ‘Facebook Rioters’ were dismissed in The High Court, and their prison sentences upheld. more…

Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice and most senior judge in England and Wales, has said that courts need only ‘take account’ of the decisions of the European Court of more…

COMMENT: Eamonn O’Neill, lecturer in journalism at University of Strathclyde and award winning  investigative journalist on why the CCRC needs to be overhauled and why the media has played its more…

‘A SELF EVIDENT INJUSTICE’. Ralph Barrington, former head of Essex CID and up until March this year investigations adviser to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, goes through the controversial evidence more…

Emma Friedman, mother of 13 year old Andy, on the failed Epilim litigation against Sanofi-Aventis. Emma took the drug when pregnant to prevent epileptic fits. She was one of 100 more…

The forgotten thalidomide: Karl Murphy’s long fight for justice against the drug company that he believes damaged him in the womb.

The justice minister, Jonathan Djanogly, has been stripped of his responsibility to regulate claims management companies after a Guardian investigation that revealed how his family could profit from the legal more…

Harsh sentences handed out to anyone involved in this summer’s riots were upheld by the Court of Appeal yesterday. Rejecting all but three of 10 appeals considered, they stressed that more…

A hotel porter won a share of his ex-wife’s £500,000 National Lottery payout in what is reckoned to be the first divorce case involving the distribution of a lottery windfall. more…

Government plans to double the qualification period for the right to claim unfair dismissal from one to two years as part of a move to ‘increase business confidence to take more…

The Supreme Court ruled that immigration rules introduced in 2008 to bar foreign spouses from entering the UK if either spouse is under 21 was a disproportionate interference with the more…

For much of the Legal Services Commission’s 12-year life, legal aid lawyers have fired vitriol – some of it fair, much of it not – at the Commission and its more…

KIM EVANS: The relatively innocent fumblings of teenagers can ruin young lives. Last year I represented a 17-year old male who had been arrested for rape, quite possibly the worst more…

IAN ROBERTSON: We  look at the Family Drugs and Alcohol Court in London and Drug with envy. It seems so sensible and humane and so at odds with the reality more…

It was revealed that the number of babies adopted in England fell to just 60 last year  - compared to 3,660 under one year olds in care – according to more…

MATT EVANS: Theresa May, full time home secretary and part-time shoe fetishist, cited various ‘and I am not making this up’ examples including the now notorious Maya, a cat (which more…

‘David Cameron talked about the 120,000 most dysfunctional families in the country in the wake of the riots. Well, we are tackling some of them and with some success,’ says more…

JAMES SANDBACH: No-one expects that Government can replicate a universal NHS style service when it comes to dealing with people’s financial and legal problems. But its retreat from funding civil more…

KIM EVANS: As I help my teenage children to tiptoe through the hormonal minefield that is their teenage years, I wonder if they’re lucky or not in their mother’s choice more…

David Cameron is to make forced marriage a crime. In a speech expected to be delivered later today, the Prime Minister is expected to say that the Government wants to more…

Today marks a seismic shift in the law world. The introduction of non-law businesses – they’re called ABSs or alternative business structures – on October 6th under the Legal Services more…

MICHAEL MANSFIELD: ‘The Criminal Cases Review Commission needs to be supported and expanded. Let’s not go back to the iniquities of pre-history. There is a strong reactionary lobby which should more…

‘I genuinely believe “access to justice” is the hallmark of a civilised society.’ It was with those inspiring words that justice secretary Ken Clarke introduced his government’s legal aid reforms more…

A leading academic has lent his weight to a new campaign for proper compensation for the victims of miscarriages of justice. Professor John Spencer QC, of Cambridge University, has damned more…

Jonathan Djanogly was forced to admit this week that his two children had owned shares in a claims management firm despite his department’s responsibility for regulating the notoriously controversial industry. more…

The Government is planning to remove the ‘fundamental’ right to free legal advice for people held in police. Under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, clause 12, more…

The year that Tony Stock was convicted for his part in a brutal robbery of a Tesco store in the Merrion Centre at Leeds, Edward Heath became British Prime Minister more…

Workers will have to pay over £1,000 to bring unfair dismissal claims, the government announced. The chancellor, George Osborne is proposing that applicants will have to cover the costs of more…

A consortium of retailers and businesses led by the Association of British Insurers has called for an end to the ‘have a go’ compensation culture The group, which included Argos, more…

The ‘death in custody’ provisions in the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force this month (1st September 2011). The campaigning group INQUEST welcomed the move arguing more…

A motor insurer has claimed that some 300,000 drivers might have accepted penalty points on behalf of someone else in the last ten years. The research from LV= estimated about more…

Cutting legal aid is ‘a false economy’, according to the report of  a panel of three non lawyer experts . Unequal before the law? the future of legal aid sets more…

Ken Clarke blamed the riots that swept across the UK on a penal system that failed to deal with the reoffending of ‘a feral underclass’. The Justice Secretary revealed that more…

Appeal judges attacked the approach to the sentencing of rioters taken by Judge Andrew Gilbart, the Recorder of Manchester. Following the August riots, Gilbart at Manchester Crown Court said the more…

The deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, writing in the Guardian, paid tribute to the UK’s ‘proud history of international leadership on human rights’. ‘Yet something strange has happened in recent more…

Divorces in England and Wales are apparently being held up by couples sniping over supermarket penalty points and air miles as the recession bites, according to Manchester-based law firm Pannones. more…

A mystery shopper exercise by the Legal Services Consumer Panel failed one in four wills. Currently, there are no restrictions on who can draft wills and there are increasing numbers more…

Over half of voluntary and community organisations have had to shut services over the last year and a similar number expected further closures over the next year

KIM EVANS: ‘I’d guesstimate that 90% of my clients have a personality disorder, mental health issues, and, or, serious substance addiction be it drugs or alcohol.’ Kim Evans has spent more…

Who said romance was dead? A legal expenses insurer has launched what it rather delicately refers to as ‘nuptial insurance products’. ‘As the first of their kind to hit the more…

The family of Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl, has attacked the government’s controversial plans to overhaul ‘no win, no fee’ deals. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Sally, Bob more…