What price justice?

Article Abstract:

The UK government is showing interest in adopting the American Public Defender System, which is made available to people who are accused of a criminal offence and cannot pay for their own legal representation. Law firms are paid a fixed sum for this work, regardless of how much time it involves. This makes the system cheaper than the Legal Aid system currently operating in the UK, under which solicitors are paid on an hourly basis. Some observers believe that the public defender system fails to uphold civil rights.

United Kingdom, Management, Finance, Legal assistance to the poor, Criminal justice, Administration of, Administration of criminal justice, Legal aid

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All in the same sinking ship

Article Abstract:

VSEL shipbuilders, Barrow-in-Furness, England, is to make another 250 workers redundant in 1993, making the workforce 7,500. It was 14,000 in 1990. Further cuts are expected to reduce those employed to 6,000. VSEL won the Ministry of Defence bid with Kvaerner Govan to build a Royal Navy helicopter carrier, the first surface ship produced by VSEL since 1982. The firm's survival strategy is to diversify from submarines.

Contracts, Employment, Unemployment, England, Shipbuilding, VSEL Consortium PLC

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