“UNSATISFACTORY IN TERMS OF PROCEDURAL HISTORY, PREPARATION, PROCESS AND OUTCOME”: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE LEGAL REPRESENTATION AWAY

John Vater QC, writing on Twitter, has - rightly- categorised the District Judge Read as a "hero".  When giving judgment in JY v RY [2018] EWFC B16 the judge made a number of telling observations about the profound implications of lack of legal aid for litigants.  Representation would lead to a fair...