I have written a letter to Robert Buckland QC. A real one, in an envelope with a stamp! It may or may not be read but I am sending it just the same. Others might want to do the same. Someone
Dear Lord Chancellor
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The Home Secretary v The Entire Legal Profession
A few weeks ago, I talked about the tweet posted by the Home Office which attacked ‘activist lawyers’. https://thestevecornforthblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/concerning-home-office-tweet-spilt.html This bizarre statement from a government Department was met with universal condemnation from across the legal profession. Law Society President Simon
Law Centres go the Extra Mile – let’s do the same
In October 1980 – 40 years ago!! – I started work at the Vauxhall Law Centre, just off Scotland Road in Liverpool. It was to be a life changing experience. In fact, it was a life changing weekend as
The passing of a once ‘long and proud history.?
Earlier this week a Home Office source said – “The UK has a long and proud history of offering refuge to those who need protection. Tens of thousands of people have rebuilt their lives in the UK and we will
Fake Law by The Secret Barrister – A Review
This is the book that many of us have been waiting and calling for over the last few years. There has always been a tendency for the media and politicians to put out wildly inaccurate reports on legal matters.
This is not Kafka – A review of Welcome to Britain – Colin Yeo
Here is my review of this important and timely book. A few weeks ago, a comment on twitter made me choke on my coffee. This was the suggestion from the Home Office that ‘activist lawyers’ were frustrating the removal of unwanted
Concerning a Home Office Tweet, spilt coffee and the Rule of Law
It is rare these days that anything causes me to choke on my morning coffee! After the year that we have had there is not much left to shock. But this did happen this morning as I was briefly looking
Agencies succesfully working together for justice! A good news story for once…
Congratulations and thanks to my friend Allan Salisbury and colleagues at Compassion Acts UK, who manage a Southport Foodbank, for successfully pursuing judicial review proceedings against the DWP in relation to a shocking injustice in the Universal Credit rules. They
Concerning lawyer jokes, hidden messages and unsung heroes
Most of the time they are harmless and sometimes even funny. I remember the first time that I heard a good lawyer insult. I was newly qualified and out on the town with other members of the Liverpool Young
Shemima Begum – a question of fairness and justice
I still remember the sense of horror in 2015 as I followed the news reports of three young, and very vulnerable looking, schoolgirls heading to Syria to join ISIS. I wasn’t the only one who hoped and prayed that something