All Legal articles – Page 136

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    Aid stays as lawyers gear up to no-win no-fee claims

    1998-04-09T00:00:00Z

    The Lord Chancellor took a breather last month from leafing through wallpaper books, ransacking the nation's art galleries and unearthing abandoned Pugin water closets. Lord Irvine unveiled his long-anticipated legal aid reforms, which were expected to abolish state aid for all money and damages claims and replace it with free ...

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    CHCs demand new law to end HAs' 'closed-door meetings'

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Community health council leaders are demanding changes in the law and new guidance on openness to stop health authorities going behind closed doors to vote through service cutbacks.