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…