Posts Tagged Governments
The US government’s capital punishment prerogative | David A Love
To our shame, the federal authorities have broad powers to execute – even in states that have abolished the death penalty While much attention is paid to the 34 US states that still administer the death penalty, federal and military systems of executions also exist. The retention of the US federal death penalty undermines those [...]
Legal aid cuts will save less than half government’s forecast, study finds
Analysis by King’s College London focusing on three areas of civil law says knock-on costs could be £139m a year Savings made by reducing the availability of legal aid for civil cases will be significantly less than half of that predicted by the government, according to a study. The financial analysis (pdf) by King’s College [...]
Multinationals will profit from the government’s civil litigation shakeup
These proposals will make claimant lawyers’ willingness to tackle UK multinational human rights violations financially unviable The government’s proposed changes to the civil litigation costs regime, which will severely restrict access to justice for many vulnerable individuals, have so far passed relatively unnoticed. However, those adversely affected will include victims of UK multinational human rights [...]
AV and the future of coalition governments
Voters in last year’s election had to guess which coalition would be formed in a hung parliament. AV could change that Anyone wishing to read the UK’s largely unwritten constitution would be well advised to start with the writings of Vernon Bogdanor. In 2009 he published The New British Constitution, a comprehensive analysis of Tony [...]
Fla. governments improve in public records audit
Fla. governments improve in public records audit MIAMI (AP) — A statewide test that requested information from local governments showed that most are complying with Florida’s public records law, a major improvement over past years when most did not. Read more on Orlando Sentinel
What type of Lawyers are brave enough to take on small City Governments?
We are remodeling a house and keep having problems from the city about permits, inspections etc. ( small town in Texas) We are having all work done by contractors who are registered with the city. We are trying to find out what is really going on here. Sorry this is so short but, it would [...]