It's been a while since I wrote on this blog. Partly because no-one reads it anyway, and partly because I have had my head wedged firmly up my own backside for a month.
I only came back to it as I posted on my Conservative MP's blog today. Mainly because he thinks the 'reforms' to housing issues are a marvellous idea. Housing law practitioners don't.
Read this:
http://nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
It's a blog written by some housing law practitioners, and when I did housing law, was considered to be the best, most up-to-date and well written way to keep up with new cases and law. If they think this reform is a bad idea, it probably is.
The new proposals are, on first glance to the average Daily Mail reader, a marvellous idea. Get rid of noisy tenants quickly? Sorted. The devil is in the detail as the blog states. Sadly there is no detail as yet. What constitutes an annoying tenant etc etc? And don't forget, the tenant probably won't get any legal aid to defend what may be a vexatious claim.
ANYWAY, it was my first foray into contacting an MP about anything - let's see if he responds at all! If you're reading Guy Opperman, I'm not sure where you stand on most issues apart from housing, and snow on local roads. It would be useful for your blog to say a little more than how many local people you have met
On the subject of Legal Aid (which is a subject which I will bang on about ad infinitum so if it bores you, leave now), JusticeForAll held their lobby campaign launch today at Westminster. They have huge support from the legal community, and it seems that many MPs attended (not sure why yet, or in what capacity - for all I know, free muffins were being handed out). I don't hold out much hope of the Green Paper being substantially amended from what we have now, but at least the legal community has finally got it's collective arses up and done something joined up.
Me? I'm currently expecting to be made redundant - well, the company I work for gets most of its funding from either Legal Aid, or other government funding, so unless a motherfucking fairy appears, then my, and many others (around the country as well ) work days are numbered.
Next blog? What other job can I possibly do seeing as my career is being made redundant by this government? I could retrain, but I can't afford to - I can't afford tuition fees, a giant mortgage, 2 kids, and an imminently expensive divorce. Shipping law appears to be the only area still advertising jobs. Think they want a jaded legal aid solicitor?? Worth a CV I guess.
If anyone is interested, links to more information:
http://www.justice-for-all.org.uk/
http://mylegal.org.uk/
http://guyopperman.blogspot.com/
I read your blog World of Sab! Well, maybe this is the first time if truth be told....
ReplyDeleteI sincerely hope your fairy comes. in fact a swarm of fairies of biblical proportions, one for each of us. In fact, two each, just to be on the safe side, it is the Tories we're dealing with here after all. In fact, f+ck it, 10 each, with machine guns and bazookas