All Legal aid and access to justice articles – Page 54
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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’.
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NewsGovernment pledges extra £8m in legal aid fee climbdown
Law Society welcomes changes it called for - but urges ministers to restart talks on solicitor fees.
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NewsRevealed: law centre getting 60,000 calls a year was on brink of closure
A law centre which received over 60,000 calls for help and one million hits on its website last year was on the verge of closure for the second time in a decade, the Gazette has learned. South West London Law Centres faced potential insolvency and closure in 2008. In the ...
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NewsWe're no replacement for legal aid, says crowdfunding pioneer
Crowdjustice founder says the platform is for the benefit of those with a 'story to tell'
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NewsCCMS crisis: domestic violence victims advised to represent themselves
Legal Aid Agency says it is aware of 'issues around performance' as family solicitor highlights devastating consequences.
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NewsCitizens Advice facing 'difficult choices' if £400,000 grant axed
Advice chiefs say they will struggle to find alternative sources of funding in time to ensure they can carry on.
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NewsLoss of £400,000 Citizens Advice grant would be a ‘disaster’
Suffolk County Council plan to scrap the grant as part of their 2019/20 budget proposals.
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NewsUN poverty envoy laments ‘gutting’ of legal aid in austerity report
Professor Philip Alston sas the government remains in a state of denial.