All Legal aid and access to justice articles – Page 66
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News‘Support’ to replace aid in lawyer-light resolutions
Ministry of Justice plans could bode ill for criminal defence specialists fighting the latest attempt to slash fees.
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NewsCourt denies pre-LASPO costs as litigation work had not started
Firm had taken on client two weeks before new civil justice cost rules came in to effect.
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NewsBankruptcies, market failure and advice deserts – Society condemns fee plans
Law Society says well-paid QCs will benefit from a pay increase under Ministry of Justice proposals.
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NewsCumbria court closure highlights provision challenge
Legal Aid Agency proposes to merge Kendal and Barrow-in-Furness duty solicitor schemes.
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NewsTruss unrepentant over ‘enemies of the people’ row
'I think it is dangerous for a minister to say "this is and this is not acceptable",' lord chancellor tells Lords committee.
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NewsFurther fee cuts ‘obtuse’, top legal aid firms tell MoJ
Big Firms’ Group urges lord chancellor to meet relevant stakeholders.
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NewsSolicitors unite to oppose fee cuts
Law Society and practitioner groups issue position statement over litigators graduated fee scheme.
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NewsTop legal aid firm rebuked over referral payments
Duncan Lewis agrees to publication of regulatory settlement agreement following SRA investigation.
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NewsNew protests over legal aid cuts
Meetings have been organised in Hull, Cheshire, Merseyside and London this month.
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OpinionFighting fee cuts
The current attacks upon access to justice and victims of crime are an affront. We must unite and fight to help save the system.
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NewsSolicitors to ‘vociferously oppose’ fee cuts
Criminal law groups say Ministry of Justice plans to reform litigators’ graduated fee scheme are ill-conceived.
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News‘Devastated and destroyed’: McKenzie friend victims speak out on TV
Former clients appear on Victoria Derbyshire show this morning as Law Society calls for curbs.
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NewsTruss willing to drop legal aid fee cut – with strings
Law Society sceptical as MoJ announces potential concession on graduated fee schemes.
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NewsOnline court 'entirely voluntary', government insists
Response to transforming justice consultation dismisses fears about access to justice and 'sentencing by algorithm'.
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Legal aid delay compounded fined solicitor's cash flow problem
Karen Todner's firm faced delays in paying legal aid - and a 'hardening attitude' on the part of HMRC.
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FeatureTrade unions: come together
Trade unions are less influential than they were, but remain a critical conduit for justice
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NewsRota 'mistake' could cost firm £40,000
Wigan firm told it has not been allocated any slots on forthcoming crime duty rota.
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NewsSRA keen to lift barriers to solicitors offering unbundling
Roundtable discussion on litigants in person reveals plans for the regulator to publish guidance.
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NewsCompetition for housing legal aid 'could result in race to the bottom'
Government outlines price competition approach for civil legal aid contract work from April 2018.
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NewsLASPO review welcomed – but Society repeats advice ‘deserts’ concerns
MoJ plans to submit a post-legislative memorandum on legal aid reforms to the justice select committee.