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Report child abuse or face criminal charges if you don't, says leading child abuse lawyer
Posted on May 1, 2013One of the UK’s leading experts on child abuse, Stockport based Peter Garsden, and four further survivor charities, are petitioning Education Secretary Michael Gove to introduce a new law forcing schools, faith groups, sports bodies, the NHS, and nurseries, to inform their local authority of all allegations and incidents of suspected and known abuse.Read moreLegal aid reforms will lead to more fathers losing contact with their children
Posted on April 1, 2013QualitySolicitors warns that low-income parents may be left unable to afford necessary legal representation to secure contact rights with their children following divorce.Read more
Employers should learn the lessons from the Lord Rennard scandal
Posted on March 1, 2013 by Aidan Loy, Associate at QualitySolicitors BHP LawCommenting on the allegations of sexual harassment committed by the Liberal Democrat's former chief executive Lord Rennard, Aidan Loy, Associate at QualitySolicitors BHP says:
Read moreLaw for all?
Posted on February 28, 2013 by Louise RestellSometimes I think people forget what the law is for. There are lawyers, I am afraid to say, who think the law is there so they can make a living, a very good one in some cases. Government ministers seem to think it is either a drain on the public purse or a means through which liberal trouble makers can block or upset their policy initiatives. And some newspaper columnists seem to think it’s only for the educated.
Read moreLessons about justice from the trial of Oscar Pistorius
Posted on February 20, 2013 by Louise RestellI was one of those lucky enough to be in the Olympic stadium on 8 September last year to watch Oscar Pistorius win his emotional gold medal in the 400m. Well, it wasn’t entirely luck, I had applied for tickets for that session precisely because I wanted to see him race. It was an incredibly stirring event and one that banished memories of his unseemly tantrum the week before, which I’d also been there to see.
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