When offenders are sentenced to “Life Imprisonment” they are provided with a Tariff Expiry Date at their Sentencing Hearing. The Trial Judge is legally obliged to set a minimum term which a convicted offender must serve, before their release may even be considered. When the “Lifer” reaches this minimums term, it is the Parole Board […]
Many may reason ‘it is ok, we will be protected because in the eyes of the law we have a ‘common law marriage’’. Did you know that there is no such thing as a common law marriage in England and Wales? Unfortunately, there is no clear law for cohabitees, unlike in situations such as divorce […]
Sometimes it is very difficult to actually believe the maxim that “as one door closes, another one opens”. The Legal Aid landscape recently has been presented with a succession of closing doors, which not only remain closed, but seem to be double locked and bolted also! It is always tempting to look back at the […]
