All Legal aid and access to justice articles – Page 104
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NewsMoJ to tackle fall in mediation referrals
Ministry is aware of the drop in referrals since LASPO and is working with the Family Mediation Council and legal profession to address it.
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Opinion
Legal aid: no defence
It is nonsense to suggest that we should be content with the ‘best of a bad job’.
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OpinionEU criminal law: a full programme
There has been a mixed reaction to the latest round of EU recommendations and directives.
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NewsTuckers announces merger with fellow legal aid firm
Senior partner predicts there could be further consolidation in the months to come.
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NewsCriminal bar names 6 January as 'strike' day
Criminal barristers will stay out of court in the morning of Monday 6 January.
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Refugees misled
Nearly two-thirds of asylum-seekers wrongly refused controlled legal representation.
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Opinion
Law Society is out of touch
What most solicitors do not get is why the Society is so chummy with Grayling.
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Judges urged to stay cases in VHCC protest
Sir Anthony Hooper says ‘the scene is set for challenges’.
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Opinion
Legal aid: what’s your alternative?
Chancery Lane is right to want to engage with the government rather than man the barricades and scream defiance.
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Criminal barristers warn of 'days of action'
Action could take place early in the new year in opposition to government’s legal aid cuts.
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NewsSociety advice on barristers’ VHCC protest
The withdrawal of counsel over VHCC work should be treated like any other change of legal team.
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NewsGrayling feels the heat from committee
The justice secretary said he will not delay civil legal aid reforms to wait for the Joint Committee on Human Rights to report.
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OpinionWorking in silos helps no one
The legal sector needs to operate within a wider context to meet the needs of the vulnerable.
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Opinion
Pro bono disappointment
There appears to be no mention or perhaps no awareness of the fact that it is legal aid firms who do the vast majority of pro bono in this country, unnoticed.
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Opinion
Leadership have done their best
Chancery Lane’s leaders have made the best of a bad job on criminal legal aid, however unpalatable that may be.
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Criminal bar 'slowly being destroyed', says judge
HH Judge Woolman warns that dispensing justice could become 'impossible'.
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OpinionUnited profession can continue to influence government
New economic research, jointly commissioned by Chancery Lane and practitioner groups, will examine the spending assumptions behind the government’s planned cuts to legal aid fees.
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Opinion
Gulf in access to justice
Thanks for shining the spotlight on the gulf in access to justice between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’.