£4250 -one of the expenses Grayling claimed (for decorating one of his many homes) for which he couldn’t provide a receipt. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5305242/Chris-Grayling-claimed-for-London-flat-despite-nearby-constituency-home-MPs-expenses.html
£1,300 on expenses our current Lord Chancellor (pre-appointment) submitted for dry cleaning. He also claimed for toothpaste, shower gel, body spray, vitamin supplements and a second home allowance. He repaid the claims for toiletries, saying: “I accept that many people would see them as over-generous.” So although he eventually came clean, you paid for his soap.
193 nationalities according to the UN. From today you have to identify one of those if appearing as a defendant in a Court. http://thejusticegap.com/2017/11/name-number-nationality/
97% Ninety-seven per-cent of respondents to the LGFS consultation opposed the page count cut that the LAA have introduced anyway.
75 the amount in pounds per year to join the LCCSA (great value!)
50 shades of Grayling....
45 minutes late - the new train unveiled by Grayling as Transport Secretary after it broke down, whose air conditioning had also failed, drenching dozens of passengers with water.
20/1 odds on Michael Gove being nest Tory leader according to Ladbroke this morning . (Don’t worry, it’s 80/1 for grayling!)
18 the sentence in months given to Mrs Zachariah-Ratcliffe before BJ intervened potentially increasing to 5 years...
14 Hours -the minimum time you must spend each week on contract work, even though you go to police stations and do your duties, all for one firm, excluding VHCC etc, without falling sick or doing other work which you have to do, just to avoid being called a ghost by other Practitioner groups and/or sanctioned by the LAA.
11 Liz Truss lasted only 11 months as Lord Chancellor. And THAT. IS. A. DISGRACE
🔟10 mins -the amount of time we have allocated GP and NTQC each to speak tonight. Anything over , you have permission to heckle.
9️⃣9. You are NINE times more likely to be imprisoned if you are from a BME background according to the Lammy report.
8️⃣8.30 the time HCMC will be sitting until if the MoJ persists with their preposterous, unwanted “flexible courts” pilot.
7️⃣7 pages. The brief , 7 page , evidence free response from the MOJ to the 1000 responders to the LGFS Consultation to cap page count to 6000 in the LGFS was rightly described by Greg Powell as “astonishing.”
6️⃣6 number of Grayling’s policies which were reversed by Gove within 6 months.
5️⃣5 years -how long we have been waiting for a lockable door on the advocates room at HCMC
4️⃣4 the average number of representatives of a certain firm that operates at a North London firm you will find congregating around the entrance to the Court and notice boards, selflessly offering to “help” people arriving.
3️⃣3 The usual number of years a member will serve on the LCCSA Committee. I have finally been granted parole, and this is my last meeting. It has been a pleasure to serve with a great committee, and my congratulations and best wishes to the new team elected tonight.
2️⃣2 the number of Gregs currently on the LCCSA committee. I am leaving, so there will then be only one Greg, because a Greg singular is, as we all know, better than.......
Greggs plural (associated with a certain bakery and its sausage rolls)
And finally.....
1 There
is only ONE association that that represents the interests of criminal solicitors from big firms and small, owners, the employed
and the self employed. The LCCSA.
We are not the “Big Firms Group” or a small firms group, we are an accountable and united members group.
You are the members.
We are the LCCSA.