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6th August 2015

From Coventry v Lawrence to minimising the effect of Legal Aid – …

The judgment is in and despite the apparent idiosyncrasies of challenging an Act which has already been repealed, it appears that common sense has prevailed (disbelieving mutterings to a minimum, please). A year since alarm bells started ringing across the realms of costs and funding, the Supreme Court has returned a verdict to what was, […]

14th July 2015

SRA – Cloudy with a chance of rain….

April showers, British frustration at Wimbledon, and public transport chaos – an eclectic mix of disappointments and annoyances that owing to their alarming regularity seem to have cemented themselves in the annual calendar. And now it seems that courtesy of the Solicitors Regulatory Authority we can now add PII policy coverage minimums to that circus. […]

8th July 2015

The heat is on at Wimbledon; my first day at the office (they refer to me as ‘Young Tom’).

So it’s my first day here at QLP, as I swap the pages of academic texts for the world of insurance. It must be said that the phrase “in at the deep end” may spring to mind to some – my writing on 1960s American sport (history to some of us) not providing much preparation […]

25th June 2015

May you live in interesting times – The AvMA Conference

This apocryphal expression, attributed to ancient China, sometimes referred to as the ‘Chinese Curse’ seems particularly apt at the moment for the NHS. As our population ages, treatments become more sophisticated, the cost of medical care will continue to increase. How does our society pay for free at the point of delivery treatment? Politicians tie […]

24th June 2015

A wolf in sheep’s clothing

We all knew it would not be long before Michael Gove made his mark as Justice Secretary and his speech at the Legatum Institute provides our first insight into what the new Justice Secretary aims to do. For those who, like me, do not know about the Institute, it is an international think tank which […]