All Legal aid and access to justice articles – Page 51
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NewsReinstate minimum salary, legal aid lawyers urge SRA
Young Legal Aid Lawyers says its research consistently reveals low pay is main barrier for prospective trainees.
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OpinionAccess to justice without leaving home
If disputes can be resolved without parties leaving home, so much the better.
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NewsLegal aid for welfare benefits plummets over a decade
Justice minister Lucy Frazer QC says the LASPO review will be published 'shortly'.
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NewsLegal Aid Agency faces High Court showdown over protection orders
Civil liberties group has been granted permission to challenge the lack of legal aid to challenge public space protection orders.
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NewsCriminal legal aid review won't be ready until late 2020
Ministry of Justice says evidence must go 'far beyond' billing data.
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OpinionBezos split should inspire mediation rethink
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos's approach lends itself to mediation. It's a shame that take-up of information and assessment meetings has continuously declined since LASPO.
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FeatureIs civil legal aid discretionary?
Legal aid spending – civil or criminal – is the choice of the state and, in that sense, it is all truly discretionary, says James Harper.
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NewsCrunch meetings on advocacy fees as bar insists ‘major problems remain’
Criminal Bar Association to canvas members’ opinions again as it identifies continued resistance to government’s legal aid offer.
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NewsFirm 'not professionally embarrassed' to represent fugitive killer at appeal
Media outcry at legal aid funding being granted to Jack Shepherd, convicted in his absence last year.
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NewsPro bono sector 'overwhelmed' after legal aid cuts - CJC
Practitioners still wait to see what changes - if any - will come from the long-awaited LASPO review.
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NewsBlavo director ordered to pay £22m over legal aid claims
Court finds shut-down firm was claiming public funds for hearings which did not appear to have taken place.
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NewsJunior barristers call for return to action in legal aid row
Open letter says junior bar is haemorrhaging talent.
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OpinionLASPO review: have your say
The Ministry of Justice's report won't be out until early next year now. Share your views on what it should say.
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NewsLASPO review publication delayed again to early 2019
Review was originally supposed to have been completed by April 2018.
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NewsGovernment-commissioned review recommends legal aid for bereaved families
Independent report says families of those who died in state detention should receive non-means-tested public funding.
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NewsBurgon: Labour will restore legal aid for welfare benefits challenges
Shadow justice secretary indicated last month that he might be making two key announcements.
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NewsCanada shows way to online claims future
British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal to take on road traffic accident cases from April.
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No scope cuts and a fee hike: Scottish government buttresses legal aid system
Scotland’s legal aid solicitors will enjoy a more upbeat Christmas than their counterparts south of the border following a hike in fee rates. All civil and criminal legal aid rates north of the border will increase by 3% from next April, after the Scottish government published its response to an ...
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NewsA smartphone court: 'Why not?', asks the lord chief justice
International forum on online courts hears top-level enthusiasm for internet increasing access to justice.
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NewsBar Conference: Civil legal aid 'not fundamental', says Sumption
Supreme Court justice says relationship between barristers and solicitors now based on ‘mutual respect’.