30 January 2012

The government has announced that implementation of the Jackson reforms in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill has been put back six months to April 2013, whilst remaining committed to the reforms.

Andrew Dismore, co-ordinator of the Access to Justice Action Group, recently wrote a letter to the Guardian newspaper predicting that “there will be at least 25% fewer claimants” as a result of the proposed changes to the no win, no fee system. This is the same Andrew Dismore who recently predicted, in relation to clinical