The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) reported back in March that testing had taken place on "open banking" technology that provides officials with access to a client’s bank account in a bid to speed up the process of checking the financial ...
The turn of April saw a raft of important changes to employment legislation, of which business owners and HR personnel need to ensure they are aware so that they are put into action immediately.Below we’ve highlighted the key employment law ...
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Last month the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published research of international processes that highlighted the challenges of the divorce process for litigants in person across England and Wales. The MoJ have since announced that it intends to reform the legal ...
Towards the end of 2018, the government announced plans to introduce what they claimed to be the biggest package of workplace reforms in over two decades. These government reforms are termed as the ‘Good Work Plan’, and the hope is ...
The UK Supreme Court, which was founded on October 1st 2009, will be sitting in Cardiff for the first time this summer.The news came as Supreme Court president Lady Hale and Lord Lloyd-Jones took to social media back on St ...
The government has confirmed that 22 magistrates' courts were closed in Wales during the past eight years - but have insisted that these changes have been made for the better.Justice minister Lord Keen of Elie QC recently responded to a ...
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According to the Ministry of Justice, a delayed review of the impact of their controversial legal aid reforms is almost complete after they published a table that demonstrated the alarming decline in the number of people who have been granted ...
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The UK government have revealed that hundreds of people applied for divorce over the Christmas and New Year period in its latest announcement and claim that making a number of justice processes available online is proving to be a success. Over ...
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The Law Society has warned that simply digitising the divorce application process and hoping that all turns out well isn’t enough to reform the legal requirements for a separation. The Society has also urged the government to restore legal aid ...
Concerns have been mounting with regards to what Brexit could mean for the UK family law system, but the government's response has left many even more worried about what will happen to children and litigants who are caught in the ...
