All Criminal justice articles – Page 103
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NewsLegal aid tender process reopens for two areas
Agency seeks new bids for areas that did not attract enough interest first time round.
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NewsAction day 28: SRA issues warning over legal aid action
Regulator concerned solicitors following new protocol for action may not be acting in clients’ best interests.
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NewsAction day 27: barristers officially join legal aid boycott
Solicitors’ boycott against government’s fee cuts changes direction as action targeted at Crown court work.
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NewsAction was on brink of 'collapse’, practitioner groups reveal
Statement explaining shift in tactics reveals big firms were ready to withdraw from legal aid boycott.
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NewsNew protocol marks change of tactics in legal aid action
Practitioner groups say allowing police station and magistrates’ work will maintain firms’ cashflow.
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NewsGove meeting ‘potentially constructive’
Practitioner groups met with justice secretary this morning as nationwide boycott over legal aid cuts continues.
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NewsAction day 22: legal aid practitioners rally in London
Solicitors and barristers gathered outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court ahead of crucial meeting with Michael Gove tomorrow.
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NewsPractitioner groups to meet Gove as legal aid boycott continues
Thursday invitation from justice secretary raises hopes of compromise following fee cut.
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NewsFirm ‘lacked high standards of conduct’ in client transfer bid
Lord chief justice refuses application to transfer representation for convicted client.
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NewsCriminal bar announces date for legal aid action
Executive committee recommends action begin on 27 July as it issues protocol.
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NewsGove: legal aid ‘concerns are legitimate’ – but no concessions
Lord chancellor also pledges review of Legal Services Act to avoid ‘regulators falling over each other’s feet’.
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NewsAction day 15: bar backs direct action
Majority of CBA members who voted back policy of no new work and ‘no returns’.
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NewsAction day 14: judges query absence of solicitors
Hundreds of practitioners attend north-west rally to protest cuts as judges seek answers.
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NewsAction day 13: firms consider duty boycott
Legal aid lawyers gear up for more direct action as standoff continues.
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OpinionThinking outside the box
Putting a defendant in a dock risks infringing the presumption of innocence.
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FeatureSerious Crime Act provisions
The 2015 act brought into effect a number of provisions on 3 May and 1 June. We look at the changes relating to, among other things, property and child protection.
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NewsGove scuttles Grayling's youth prison flagship
‘Secure college’ planned to house hundreds of young offenders is abandoned.
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NewsAction day 10: MoJ denies manipulating legal aid figures
Practitioner group accuses justice ministry of ‘bare-faced lie’.
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NewsGove promises action on criminal referral fees
Justice secretary tells judges he will not tolerate ‘inappropriate payments’.
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NewsAction day 8: Gove meets big legal aid firms
Lord chancellor ‘concerned' as he meets representatives from the Big Firms Group.