Comment Melanie Onn: May’s Great Repeal Bill will leave workers’ rights hanging by a thread Theresa May announced last month that the Government will look to pass a Great Repeal Bill, which will… Melanie Onn 20th October, 2016, 8:00 am
News “Utter chaos”: Latest Tory u-turn shows mistake of legal aid reform The Conservatives’ handling of legal aid reforms has been slammed as a “fiasco” as Michael Gove announced a… 29th January, 2016, 10:21 am
News Cable admits tribunal fees were a bad idea and slams Tories’ “aggressively anti-worker, anti-union agenda” Business Secretary Vince Cable has admitted that charging tribunal fees was a bad idea. Under the Coalition government,… 30th April, 2015, 10:51 am
News Labour would repeal all changes made to judicial review but won’t reverse cuts to legal aid, says Khan Labour have announced that they would repeal all of the changes that the Government have made to judicial… 2nd March, 2015, 8:44 am
News Former Tory MP slams Grayling. Says Lord Chancellor “puts the dick into tat” Former Tory MP (and practising barrister) Jerry Hayes has launched an astonishing attack on Lord Chancellor and Justice… 23rd January, 2015, 12:17 pm
Comment Parliament has more important priorities than this spiffwaddle Today Parliament will debate the Government’s Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill, or SARAH for short. But SARAH… Sadiq Khan 20th October, 2014, 1:47 pm
Comment Freud and the politics of cruelty That story about the frog not noticing that the water it is sitting in is getting hotter and… Stefan Stern 20th October, 2014, 8:08 am
Comment Abandoning human rights – the most extreme Tory act yet So finally we get the Tory announcement of their intention to legislate against compliance with European Court of… Richard Howitt 3rd October, 2014, 1:43 pm
Comment Brooks Newmark’s comments aren’t just patronising, they’re an attack on charities The new Minister for Civil Society may be surprised by the uproar he’s caused by telling charities to… Lisa Nandy 4th September, 2014, 3:59 pm
Comment Who do you believe on prisons? It’s not a hard choice It’s a simple choice. Who do you believe on prisons? The independent Chief Inspector of Prisons who recently… Sadiq Khan 13th August, 2014, 2:50 pm