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Advocate Issue 81
By the time this reaches you, I hope you will have enjoyed a couple of Bank Holiday weekends, an improvement in the weather and recovered from a surfeit of chocolate and the overdose of literary quotations squeezed into the last edition of The Advocate! But an editorial would not be complete without one cultural reference: […]
Advocate Issue 80
In this edition, university academic, Dr Tom Smith, examines “the most expensive legal aid system in the world”. We look at the foolishness of politicians: Grayling may have made the cuts but what is the position of the Liberal Democrats on this issue? Rakesh Bhasin attempts to work this out. (To even up the politician-bashing, […]
Advocate Issue 79
I would like to start my first editorial by wishing everyone a very Happy New Year. It is, unfortunately, a year that begins with great uncertainty but we can take some small comfort from the fact that we are not alone. In this edition’s interview, Ian Lawrence, the general secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers, confirms that the future of probation officers is not a certain one and that Mr Grayling’s proposals for them are as ill conceived as are his plans for us.
Advocate Issue 78
This is the last editorial I shall write for the London Advocate and composing it is a curious task because I find myself in the unusual position of welcoming myself as the new president of the association.
Advocate Issue 77
As ever, the LCCSA annual dinner was a splendid and most enjoyable event and, this year, featured a standing ovation for a brilliant speech from the association’s guest speaker, Lord Justice Moses. Members and guests alike responded to his wittily argued attack on the proposals for price competitive tendering which have been put forward by the Ministry of Justice.
Advocate Issue 76
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – Charles Dickens’s description of the French Revolution only begins to reflect this period in the life of the association: the proposals with which our members are threatened – amounting to a death sentence for the majority – are terrifying; but there have been few occasions in our history when we have seen such commitment, courage and unity in response.