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The Secret Legal Adviser
Pandora (not her real name) is a legal adviser in a magistrates’ court. Legal advisers are solicitors or barristers who are responsible for advising magistrates in court on law, evidence, practice and procedure, for ensuring all who appear have a fair hearing and helping those who are unrepresented to present their case. Here we present extracts from Pandora’s lockdown diary.
15 November 2021
The Secret Legal Adviser urges HMCTS members to vote in our consultative ballot on the flawed Common Platform case management system which she says is making her seriously consider if she can continue doing the job she loves
21 January 2021
Despite the fact so much more is known about how Covid 19 is transmitted, that the new strain is 70% more transmissible and the NHS is teetering on the brink of being overwhelmed, the HMCTS cry is ‘business as usual’.