Story here about legal aid solicitors getting paid less than sewage workers and prison officers. I am sorry to sound unsympathetic, but I don’t see the linkage between legal aid rates for solicitors and the salary that solicitors receive? From a business perspective it is up to a firm to decide what to pay their [...]
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Judge orders boy to live with father against his wishes
November 20, 2009Before you all get too excited about this case as reported in the Daily Telegraph I would ask you to hold off from rushing to include this in your skeleton arguments until you see the actual judgment from the Court of Appeal. Hope I am wrong but this seems to me more akin to an [...]