Category Archives: Justice

Number of litigants in person rise

By Tim Bishop | Published: October 18, 2011

The number of individuals going to court without lawyers is rising – or at least according to figures collected by the Personal Support Unit [PSU] – a small independent charity working in a number of London courts and with the aim of providing support to litigants in person. Their figures show a 19% hike in [...]

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Government ignore £1.3bn uncollected fines

By Tim Bishop | Published: August 19, 2011

No – your eyes do not deceive you. That’s the incredible amount of uncollected fines that the government have failed to collect – or at least according to figures in a National Audit Office report released back in July 2009 but which hasn’t received much publicity. And it’s going up rapidly – comparable figures of [...]

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Divorce in hard economic times

By Tim Bishop | Published: June 15, 2011

The economic recession and its immediate off them off have added extra pressure to the already distressing process of getting a divorce - or in fact to obtaining a  civil partnership dissolution. With instability and uncertainty remaining in the employment market and the property market and with pension funds remaining at depressed levels, it may seem [...]

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The cost of financial sector fraud

By Tim Bishop | Published: February 25, 2011

The Law Society are still battling against the proposed cuts both to legal aid and the justice system generally. Frankly, I think they have little chance of succeeding – it’s like watching King Canute trying to turn the waves back. There is, however, one interesting statistic that has come up in the latest proposals from the the [...]

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Injury compensation claims – the delay caused by insurance companies

By Tim Bishop | Published: February 24, 2011

Further to my earlier posts about “injury lawyers attacked” and ” litigants in person expected to increase “, I now read that research by the University of Lincoln, involving 20,000 accident compensation  cases , found that the average daily cost of delay by defendant insurance companies in injury compensation and medical negligence claims, is six times [...]

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