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| What You've Missed Entries marked* are available on line - just click. Back issues of Independent Lawyer are available. Price on application. Email your inquiry to: newsdesk@independent-lawyer.com Special Reports |
| Independent Lawyer's Special Reports take a detailed look at an existing or emerging area of practice. |
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*Public Defender Service (issue 1) Immigration (issue 2) Public inquiries (issue 3) Family legal aid (issue 6) Not-for-profit contracts (issue 7) Inquests (issue 8) Criminal appeals (issue 9) Legal aid Bar (issue 10) LSC 'light touch' audits (issue 14) |
| Case Updates |
| Independent Lawyer's Case Updates provide detailed analysis & comment on important legal aid decisions, written by our regular barrister columnists, Gordon Wignall (36 Bedford Row) & Dominic Thomas (Charter Chambers). | Jarrett (R on the application of) v LSC & Others (issue 1) Afrika v Cape plc; Sayers v Smith Kline Beecham plc; XYZ v Schering Health Care (issue 2) Oliver Fisher v LSC (issue 3) R v Horseferry Road Magistrates Court ex p Punatar (issue 4) Boxall v London Borough of Waltham Forest (issue 5) Aliss (R on the application of) v LSC (issue 6) British Nursing Association v Inland Revenue (National Minimum Wage Compliance Team) (issue 7) (has implications for duty solicitor pay rates) R (on the application of West) v Parole Board (issue 8) CND (R on the appliction of) v Prime Minister & others (issue 8) Brawley v Marczynski (issue 9) R v Lance Smith & Stephen Rennie (issue 9) Tuckers Solicitors v LSC (issue 10) R (on the application of N) v Secretary of State for Home Department (issue 10) Cavaliere v LSC (issue 11) Jackson v Lord Chancellor (issue 11) Peter Sheldrake v DPP (issue 11) AB v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (issue 13) Regina v Drew (issue 13) (automatic left sentences) *Appeal procedures under LSC funding code (issue 13) McGlinchey v UK (issue 13) Fowler de Pledge v Smith (issue 14) G (child) (issue 14) R v Philip Knight (issue 14) R (on the application of Alan Lord) v Secretary of State for Home Department (issue 15) |
| Briefing |
| Independent Lawyer's Briefing slot provides practical and tactical advice from an expert on a topic which will be relevant to legal aid firms. |
Advice on dealing with the media when it's your case that's suddenly attracting the attention of the press (issue 2) Low-cost marketing using the internet (issue3) How to get the best out of your interpreter (issue 8) How to set up & run a law shop (issue 11) Staying on the right side of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (issue 13) Complying with the Disability Discrimination Act (issue 15) |
| Surgery |
| Richard Miller, director of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group & a former legal aid solicitor, answers readers' queries. |
LSC sufficient benefit test (issue 2) LSC client feedback questionnaire (issue 6) Challenging an audit result (issue 7) *Penalties for late submission of bills (issue 8) Devolved powers (issue 12) High-cost civil cases (issue 14) |
| Practice Profile |
| Independent Lawyer's practice profiles take a detailed look at how an interesting or innovative firm organises itself to see if there are lessons for other suppliers. |
Coventry Law Centre (issue 11) BWS (issue 12) Hodge Jones & Allen (issue 13) Morgans (issue 14) Scott-Moncrieff Harbour & Sinclair (issue 15) |