Author: The Open Forum

The Court of Appeal has reinstated a LeO finding against a family law firm over capacity and compensation. The court has reinstated an ombudsman…

Five thousand Dieselgate claimants have run into the least glamorous wall in civil litigation: effective service. A High Court master has refused to let…

A veteran solicitor has been struck off after admitting he billed clients for work he had not done to stop his firm exceeding its…

The Post Office scandal has at last produced disciplinary charges against solicitors, though not the sort many campaigners had been waiting for. The SRA…

Open justice has discovered the ancient British art of saying “of course you may” while quietly reaching for the card machine. A cross-party early…

Updated Department for Education guidance became statutory on 29 June. Schools in England should begin following it from 1 September. The guidance says schools…

The Vagrancy Act was law written in the tone of a man irritated that poverty had chosen to be visible. On 29 June, the…

The Crown Court backlog has fallen by 37 cases, which is the justice-system equivalent of tidying one teaspoon in a burning kitchen. Fresh court…

The government has decided that nudging users with better settings is no longer doing the job. Ministers plan to ban social media platforms from…