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Number of judicial review applications falls from 15,600 to 4,000
Tuesday, 10 March 2015The number of judicial review applications lodged at the High Court fell from 15,600 to just 4,062 last year – caused mainly, but not entirely by the transfer of immigration and asylum cases to the Upper Tribunal.
Tags: applications, Chris Grayling, judicial review, Ministry of Justice
Posted in News
SARAH Bill lampooned as “monument to Grayling” as it passes third reading
Wednesday, 7 January 2015The government’s Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism (SARAH) Bill passed its third reading in the House of Lords yesterday afternoon, but was lampooned by Lord Pannick as a “monument” to the achievements of the current Lord Chancellor, Chris Grayling.
Tags: Chris Grayling, Lord Pannick, personal injury, SARAH Bill
Posted in News
Grayling gets it wrong on whiplash
Wednesday, 3 December 2014Justice secretary Chris Grayling blundered yesterday afternoon when he announced that medical experts had only three months, from January 2015 to 1 April 2015, to become accredited under the government’s new MedCo scheme.
Tags: Association of British Insurers, Chris Grayling, MedCo, medical reports, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
Grayling announces new court rules on medical evidence for whiplash claims
Monday, 4 August 2014Chris Grayling, the justice secretary and Lord Chancellor, has promised new court rules to limit the scope of medical evidence for whiplash claims and discourage ‘pre-med’ offers.
Tags: Chris Grayling, medical evidence, Ministry of Justice, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
MPs and peers attack judicial review costs changes
Wednesday, 30 April 2014MPs and peers on the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) have attacked government plans to make sweeping changes to the costs rules for judicial reviews.
Tags: access to justice, Chris Grayling, costs, judicial review
Posted in Costs, News