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		<title>The government&#8217;s &#8216;concessions&#8217; over secret courts are not concessions at all</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/30/the-governments-concessions-over-secret-courts-are-not-concessions-at-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/30/the-governments-concessions-over-secret-courts-are-not-concessions-at-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 07:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice system]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed Spooks as much as the next person, although I lost interest once the characters played by Rupert Penry Jones and Hermione Norris were bumped off. Along with most people, I have no illusions as &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/30/the-governments-concessions-over-secret-courts-are-not-concessions-at-all/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=681&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We have only ourselves to blame</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/29/we-have-only-ourselves-to-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 09:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community sentences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[restorative justice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/?p=678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent this weekend on a yoga retreat.  It wasn’t terribly successful as on Sunday morning I fell down the stairs and sprained my ankle, rendering any further participation in sun salutations or downward facing dogs nigh on impossible.  As &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/29/we-have-only-ourselves-to-blame/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=678&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr Wonga and the jobs factory</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/23/mr-wonga-and-the-jobs-factory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beecroft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clegg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no-fault dismissal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red tape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redundancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair dismissal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently all we need to get our sluggish economy up and running again is the ability to sack people more easily.  This according to a man who gets at least some of his wealth lending to the desperate and charging &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/23/mr-wonga-and-the-jobs-factory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=675&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Team Justice Gap, probably the best team in the world</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/22/team-justice-gap-probably-the-best-team-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 16:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Bancroft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Felicity Gerry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal aid cuts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[London Legal Walk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I witnessed, and indeed was part of, something of a rare event.  Over 6,000 people from organisations as diverse as Doughty Street Chambers, Allen &#38; Overy, the Bar Pro Bono Unit, Buckinghamshire Magistrates, the College of Law, Islington Law &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/22/team-justice-gap-probably-the-best-team-in-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=671&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me why? I don&#8217;t like Tuesdays</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/14/tell-me-why-i-dont-like-tuesdays/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/14/tell-me-why-i-dont-like-tuesdays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Pannick QC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LawCare]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/?p=667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently it’s quite stressful being a lawyer.  This does not come as too much of a surprise because it’s pretty stressful doing any sort of job, although it’s even more stressful not having a job at all.  Nonetheless, it would &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/14/tell-me-why-i-dont-like-tuesdays/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=667&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You get what you pay for: the SRA and the minimum salary</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/09/you-get-what-you-pay-for-the-sra-and-the-minimum-salary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law graduates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[minimum salary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social mobility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[training contracts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, it appears, I am regulator bashing.  It’s not much of a sport as it’s so easy to do, but hey, we all have to get our kicks somewhere.  Yesterday I was rather disparaging about the Solicitors Regulation Authority &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/09/you-get-what-you-pay-for-the-sra-and-the-minimum-salary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=665&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind the gap:  why the SRA&#8217;s consumer information falls short</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/08/mind-the-gap-why-the-sras-consumer-information-falls-short/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Ombudsman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[legal services consumer panel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/?p=661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the typical English bank holiday weather over the weekend I barely ventured out of the house and instead found myself working.  Sad but inevitable.  It’s also a bit sad that as a ‘consumer champion’ it was only in &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/08/mind-the-gap-why-the-sras-consumer-information-falls-short/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=661&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What goes around comes around:  MPs and the legal aid cuts</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/06/what-goes-around-comes-around-mps-and-the-legal-aid-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 19:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice centres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[casework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LASPO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/?p=657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a paradox that the rule stating people often rate their personal experience of something much more highly than the something as a whole does not seem to apply to politicians.  Thus surveys can show disaffection with the NHS &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/06/what-goes-around-comes-around-mps-and-the-legal-aid-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=657&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/02/knowing-the-price-of-everything-and-the-value-of-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens Advice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/?p=652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And so the legal aid bill has ended its ignominious passage through Parliament and received Royal Assent.  It is, without a doubt, one of the most controversial pieces of legislation to come out of this most controversial of governments and &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/05/02/knowing-the-price-of-everything-and-the-value-of-nothing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=652&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I have seen the future and it works (sort of)</title>
		<link>http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/04/25/i-have-seen-the-future-and-it-works-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Restell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal services]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lincoln Steffens]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/?p=649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn’t want to compare the legal services market to Soviet Russia given how that’s turned out, but that is rather how I felt coming home from the Legal Futures conference on ‘the new frontiers of law’ on Monday.  Having &#8230; <a href="http://blog.qualitysolicitors.com/2012/04/25/i-have-seen-the-future-and-it-works-sort-of/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.qualitysolicitors.com&#038;blog=20926576&#038;post=649&#038;subd=qualitysolicitors&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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