All Legal aid and access to justice articles – Page 69
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NewsCompliance fears over measures to tackle ‘ghost’ solicitors
Criminal legal aid solicitors warned of new contractual requirements ahead of duty rota deadline.
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NewsForensic reports threatened by low legal aid rates
Cuts give 'competitive advantage to those who have not prioritised quality', regulator says in damning annual report.
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NewsCampaigners hope transfer will save city's court
Ministry of Justice says it is will to consider proposal to move Crown work to empty magistrates’ court in Chichester.
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NewsAdvocacy fees: Society pulls out of working group
Chancery Lane cites concern about 'lack of openness and transparency'.
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NewsSRA obtains freezing order against legal aid fraud firm
Regulator concerned that money due to Chambers Solicitors in Bradford is ‘being diverted to other law firms’.
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Pro bono clinics report greater number of ‘distressed’ clients
Charity LawWorks highlights devastating impact legal woes are having on clients’ mental and physical health.
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NewsMoJ ignores travel time request for alternative court venues
Commons justice select committee wanted government assurance over court estates programme.
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NewsSilence over Gove's legal aid advisory council
Body was set up after controversial criminal legal aid contracting regime was scrapped, but has yet to report.
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NewsDomestic violence legal aid applications rise
Government relaxed time limit for reporting following Court of Appeal ruling in February.
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News‘Filling their stockings’: Labour backs ‘fat cats’ campaign against whiplash reforms
Feeding fatcats campaign launch Source: Michael Cross Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon (third from right) launches campaign against PI reforms. Trade union firm highlights windfalls to insurers from proposed PI changes.
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NewsPrisoners face advice struggle on release, thinktank reports
Centre for Justice Innovation calls for tailored social welfare support to help cut cost of reoffending.
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News‘Unacceptable’ lack of representation for detainees
Charity Bail for Immigration Detainees says findings are at odds with British value of rule of law.
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NewsNew legal aid ‘advice deserts’ emerge
Legal Aid Agency has issued expressions of interest to provide housing and debt services in the north of England.
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OpinionOut to get lawyers?
The death of lawyers has been greatly exaggerated, but a concerted bid to sideline them from dispute resolution is real cause for alarm.
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NewsLiz Truss gives hope of imminent LASPO review
Justice secretary tells parliament a timetable for the review of legal aid reforms will be announced shortly.
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NewsSRA intervenes in Bradford legal aid fraud practice
Reason to suspect dishonesty by Mohammed Ayub, convicted of conspiracy to defraud.
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NewsLet graduates represent litigants in person – master of the rolls
Sir Terence Etherton says judges and the professions need to ‘think more creatively’ about improving access to justice.
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NewsEnglish solicitors ‘could pay extra to practise in Wales’
Welsh businesses subsidise litigation between foreign oligarchs in London. Access to justice would be enhanced in a separate jurisdiction, policy forum hears.
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NewsMoJ says it sets no travel time target when closing courts
Permanent secretary Richard Heaton says access to justice is 'not just about proximity'.
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NewsLCJ concerned about McKenzie friends ‘preying’ on vulnerable clients
Lord Thomas says there is now a problem with the number of litigants in person in the justice system.