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All-rounders

BBC Radio 4 Law in Action
Ministry of Justice
Home Office
Law Commission
UK Parliament
The English Legal System - Gary Slapper and David Kelly Companion website
Lord Justice Gross: The Judicial Role Today
Her Majesty's Court Service
The Law Society
The Bar Council
Judicial Appointments in England and Wales Policies and Procedure (2005)
Judiciary of England and Wales
Judicial Appointments Commission
Competition in Professions - Office of Fair Trading (2001)
Solicitors Regulation Authority
Magistrates Association
Delivering Simple, Speedy, Summary Justice - an evaluation of the magistrates' courts tests -
Legal Services Commission
Community Legal Service
Implementing legal aid reform: Government Response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Report 2007 (CM 7158)
PACE - Revised Codes
Further findings: a continuing evaluation of the civil justice reforms. Lord Chancellor's Department (2002)
Case track limits and the claims process for personal injury claims - Department for Constitutional Affairs (2007)
The Report of the Review of Tribunals - Sir Andrew Leggatt (2001)

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Reports

Justice, Resistance and Solidarity: Race and Policing in England and WalesFEATURED
CDS Direct: Flying in the face of the evidence - Bridges, L & Cape, E
Constitutional Reform: a new way of appointing judges (2003)
Review of the Regulatory Framework for Legal Services in England and Wales - Sir David Clementi (2004)
Jury Research and Impropriety - Department for Constitutional Affairs (2005)
A Review of the Criminal Courts of England and Wales - Lord Justice Auld (2001)
Legal aid: a market-based approach to reform. Lord Carter (2006)
Legal Aid: a sustainable future. Department for Constitutional Affairs consultation paper (2006)
Community Legal Service: The Introduction of Contracting. HC 89 2002-03, National Audit Office (2003).
Implementation of the Carter Review of Legal Aid - Constitutional Affairs Committee (2007)
Evaluation of the Public Defender Service in England and Wales - Bridges, L and others (2007)
Review of the Crown Prosecution Service (the Glidewell Report). Cm 3972, Sir Ian Glidewell, (1998)
Code for Crown Prosecutors
Lay and Judicial Perspectives on the Expansion of the Small Claims Regime. Lord Chancellor's Department. J. Baldwin (2002)
Emerging Findings: an early evaluation of the Civil Justice Reforms. Lord Chancellor's Department (2001)
Access to Justice. Department for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Woolf (1996)
Confidence and Confidentiality: Improving transparency and privacy in family courts (2006)
Court-based ADR Initiatives for Non-Family Civil Disputes: the Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal - Lord Chancellor's Department - Hazel Genn (2002)
Transforming Public Services: Complaints, Redress and Tribunals. Department for Constitutional Affairs (2004)

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Commentary

Playing the Race Card: Is this Theresa May's cynical new strategy? [Spectator podcast]FEATURED
The Constitutional Reform Act 2005: ministers, judges and constitutional change - Lord Windlesham
The lamp that shows that freedom lives - is it worth the candle? - Darbyshire, P
The Jubilee line jurors: does their experience strengthen the argument for judge-only trial in long and complex fraud cases - Lloyd-Bostock, S
Trial by Jury - Past and Present (Blackstone Lecture)
What's happening in justice? A view from England & Wales (Sir Ernest Ryder)
Hear from the judges...
The Family Bar in A Digital World (12 May 2018)
Forget ADR - think A or D - Evans , A
The Police Reform Act 2002 - Increasing centralisation, maintaining confidence and contracting out crime control - Ormerod, D & Roberts, A
The unmet need: focus on the future - Ryan, E
Full steam ahead - Zander, M
English Legal System Podcast - Penny Darbyshire
Lord Justice Jackson: Was it all worth it?
Justice in a Modern Way (Speech by Sir Ernest Ryder, Senior President of Tribunals)
Change of PACE - Zander, M
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Research

Jurors perceptions, understanding, confidence and satisfaction in the jury system: a study in six courts - R Matthews, L Hancock and D Briggs (Home Office) (2004)
The Judiciary in the Magistrates' Courts - Morgan, R & Russell, N
Ethic Minorities in the Criminal Courts - Hood, R, Shute, S and Seemungal, F
Reducing Offending: an assessment of research evidence on ways of dealing with offending behaviour. Home Office Research Study No. 187 directed by Chritopher Nuttall (1998)
Police stops, decision-making and practice - Quinton and others (2000)

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