201404.25
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Probation – Solicitors Joint Press Release

Probation Staff & Solicitors – Joint Protests Napo, the Trade Union for Probation and Family Court staff, are still in a formal dispute over the government plans to privatise 70% of the probation service which they say will have a significant impact on public safety and public protection and on the 31.3.14 and 1.4.14 took…

201403.24
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LCCSA/CLSA suggested work to rule protocol c/o Richard Furlong

Compliance with the Criminal Procedure Rules An LCCSA/CLSA Guide “Working to Rules”: looking for breaches of the Criminal Procedure Rules by the CPS and using them to your advantage. Stage 1: Are you simply demonstrating withdrawal of your goodwill or do you want costs? Withdrawal of goodwill: If legal aid has not been granted, consider…

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Minutes of meeting of Solicitors on 19th March in Manchester

On the 19th March 2014 the CLSA and LCCSA jointly held a National Criminal Solicitors Meeting at The Palace Hotel in Manchester. With the Government’s publication of the final response to consultation being circulated only on the 27th February, some two and a half months after the scheduled publication date, this left little time to…