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Jess Campbell reports on the joined-up efforts of the pro bono community to meet the mammoth post-LASPO upsurge in litigants in person

I am delighted to report that 52% of the Bar donated £30 to the Bar Pro Bono Unit (the Unit) through the authorisation to practise process, which concluded in April.

The past six months has seen a considerable amount of activity to the point where only a few issues of substance still remain unresolved, writes HH John Platt.

Mark Hoyle, who is now a partner at King & Wood Mallesons SJB in Dubai, organised a dinner for Barristers in the Gulf, on 28 May 2014.

There was an excellent selection of people, mostly from Dubai but also a one day tripper from Qatar.

Calling all part time fee paid judges, you have nothing to lose but money lawfully due to you.

In January 2013 the Supreme Court decided that the MoJ had broken the terms of the EU Part time Working Directive of 1997 by denying pension rights to part time fee paid judges where there is a full time salaried comparator.

NB The information contained in this article is believed to be correct as at 3rd October 2014 but the situation may change in the light of future events over which the author has no control.