Monidipa Fouzder
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Twitter was an important platform for me. It was a brilliant source of news and helped raise my profile as a journalist. But I just can't stay here anymore. Will shortly be deleting my account. So farewell, my followers. You can find me on bluesky.
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One of my legal aid stories has been picked up by the Canadian Lawyer magazine!. *puts Canada on list of potential next holiday destination*.
canadianlawyermag.com
The PAMELA network seeks to help not just lawyers, but clients as well
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Total 24% fee uplift sounds like a lot. But MoJ says latest cash will take total fee uplift to 24% "over this parliament". Does that mean there won't be extra £££ down the line? Worth noting Bellamy recommended *minimum* 15% fee uplift as *the first step* in November 2021.
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Extra £££ for criminal legal aid. Bellamy review recommended minimum 15% fee uplift as "first step" in nursing sector back to health after years of neglect. Ministry of Justice says extra cash will take total fee uplift to 24% "over this parliament".
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Criminal legal aid solicitors will receive up to £92 million more a year to help address the ongoing challenges in the criminal justice system.
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RT @mdcomms: "We need to support each other and share experiences and ideas, and not just us but our clients.". Thank you to @MonidipaFouzd….
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RT @lawsocgazette: Catch up on @MonidipaFouzder's live updates from this afternoon's justice committee: .
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Shabana Mahmood makes her first appearance before MPs on the select committee as lord chancellor and justice secretary.
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RT @lawsocgazette: Justice committee live: Lord chancellor Shabana Mahmood gives evidence. @MonidipaFouzder reports ⬇️. .
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Shabana Mahmood makes her first appearance before MPs on the select committee as lord chancellor and justice secretary.
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This is such a fantastic new initiative: a menopause support network for the legal aid sector.
lawgazette.co.uk
Solicitor says a lot of menopause support within the legal sector is focused on corporate entities and big institutions.
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RT @lawsocgazette: In her second appearance before MPs, the lady chief justice offered a wide-ranging critique of the justice system, bemoa….
lawgazette.co.uk
In her second appearance before MPs, the lady chief justice offered a wide-ranging critique of the justice system, bemoaning curbs on sitting days and touching on digitisation, family law and...
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Vacancy for a justice minister post going if anyone fancies it. Very long list of responsibilities includes courts, legal aid and civil justice.
Heidi Alexander MP @Heidi_Labour has been appointed Secretary of State for Transport @TransportGovUK.
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"It is not about saving money. You are deferring the cost and indeed you are increasing it." The lady chief justice gave evidence to @CommonsJustice today and had a LOT to say about the impact of not letting the Crown courts sit to full capacity.
lawgazette.co.uk
Cases ready to be heard are being taken out of lists, salaried judges are not sitting and fee-paid judges are having their bookings cancelled.
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The Legal Aid Practitioners Group (@WeAreLAPG) have embarked on an important data drive so that it can hand the Ministry of Justice hard proof of the amount of time spent by legal aid lawyers on unbillable work:.
lawgazette.co.uk
Practitioner groups wants to show government the current legal aid scheme is unnecessarily complex and bureaucratic.
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I mention in the piece how much the employer NI hike will cost South West London Law Centres (£33,569). Told after I filed the piece that for another firm that does mostly legal aid work, it will cost them an extra £25,000.
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ICYMI: news feature from me on the potential consequences for law centres and legal aid firms as a result of the chancellor's decision to increase employer national insurance contributions.
lawgazette.co.uk
After Rachel Reeves' budget announcement of a rise in employers' national insurance, cash-strapped law centres and small firms are agonising over how to absorb thousands in extra staff costs.
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50: number of years South West London Law Centres has been going for. 1000s: number of people SWLLC helps every year. £33,569: SWLLC, which gets only 1/3 of its income from legal aid, will have to find when the employers NI increase kicks in next April.
lawgazette.co.uk
South West London chief says it would be 'wonderful' if charities were to be exempted from chancellor's tax raid.
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For anyone who enjoys reading my articles and ramblings, you can also follow me on Bluesky now.
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"It takes a sisterhood to support women in law" - Baroness Harriet Harman at the Inspirational Women in Law Awards last night, where she was honoured with a lifetime achievement award.
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Solicitor Harriet Harman delivers rousing speech at Inspirational Women in Law awards ceremony.
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RT @QaysSediqi: “Is this even real?” From a refugee camp to launching my own law firm, @DRSolicitors. Thank you, @lawsocgazette, for shari….
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Qays Sediqi believes he can connect with clients on a different level because of his experience as an asylum seeker.
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We'll have to wait until Spring 2025 to see what long-term solutions the Sentencing Review proposes to end the prisons crisis. But criminal defence firm @CommonsLegal has come up with one the government can explore right now. New blog from me:.
lawgazette.co.uk
Criminal defence firm has set out a compelling business case for piloting a holistic defence model that would reduce prison costs and reoffending.
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