Kyles Legal are delighted to welcome Jeff Smith, Maria Rice and Viki Logan to the team, they will be working in our Conveyancing department from June 2016.
If you would like to speak with the team, please contact our office on 0191 2571051 and they will be happy to help.
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Following 13 April 2015, defendants who attend a Criminal Court and either plead guilty or are found guilty of any offence in England and Wales will have to pay up to £1,200 towards the cost of their court case under The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Criminal Courts Charge) Regulations 2015, it has been revealed.
A litigant in person is someone who is not represented in court by either a solicitor or barrister or other legal advisor. This can be an individual, a company or other organisation that has a legal entity.
The number of women convicted of drink-driving has nearly doubled in the last few years, a survey has revealed.
Women totalled 9% of drink-drive convictions in 1998, but that figure had increased to 17% by 2012, the figures showed.
In April 2013 fundamental changes were made to legal aid following the implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).
Since those changes, the landscape for the provision of legal aid has changed beyond all belief and recognition and the figures from the first year of civil justice reforms show that access to civil legal aid has fallen by more than half and some categories of law have already become almost entirely inaccessible for state funding.
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On BBC Radio 5 Live and the “Your Call” part of the Breakfast show this morning the question put to the audience was “Does marriage still matter?”
The programme can be found to those who have access to BBC iPlayer at the following site within the next 7 days at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f89dc
The number of cases started between January to March 2014 in family courts in England and Wales shows a 6% drop in comparison to the same quarter in 2013, according to a new Ministry of Justice report.
In January to March 2014, divorce proceedings accounted for 45% of all new cases issued in the family court, with private law proceedings then coming to 19% and financial remedy proceedings amounting to 16%.
In total, relationship breakdown cases now account for over 80% of the courts’ workload.
Broken down, the reports key findings include:
The full report is available to download via
Mr Leon Humphreys recently appeared before Bury St Edmunds Magistrates Court and asked just that, could he have his guilt determined by trial by combat?