The English criminal justice system is often described as the best in the world. Unfortunately however, because it is an adversarial system, vulnerable witnesses (especially victims of sexual assaults) do not always get a fair deal. In such cases the system does not always ‘convict the guilty and acquit the innocent.’ Various improvements to help vulnerable […]
Recent months have seen the unlikely scenario of lawyers protesting outside parliament. Some wearing their gowns and wigs. Not even Shakespeare with his comic eye for the implausible could have predicted this! Their cause? The recent cuts to family legal aid. The protest is not only about the unfairness of a system which illogically reduces […]
