All Legal aid and access to justice articles – Page 79
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NewsAction day 43: Gove to be briefed on savings ideas
Practitioner groups present four options at latest meeting with Ministry of Justice officials.
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NewsAction day 42: London firms propose withdrawing bids
Practitioner group surveys members to see if firms are willing to pull out of contract tender.
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OpinionSRA principles dilemma
Criminal legal aid solicitors are at risk of breaching regulatory requirements whatever they do.
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NewsAction day 38: LAA opens client hotline
Legal Aid Agency creates new telephone service for unrepresented defendants ahead of meeting with practitioner groups.
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NewsAction day 36: Legal Aid Agency gathering data
Agency reportedly contacting firms willing to cover Crown court cases with unrepresented defendants.
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NewsAction day 35: SRA issues second warning
Regulator says revised protocol still compromises solicitors’ professional obligations.
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OpinionAbolish advice at the police station
The lord chancellor is inviting ideas for savings. Here’s one.
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NewsAction day 34: MoJ dialogue 'still ongoing'
Practitioner groups meet Ministry of Justice officials for second time to discuss legal aid reforms.
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NewsPost-LASPO pro bono immigration increase 'not sustainable'
Ministry of Justice says little evidence legal aid reforms have adversely affected cases.
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NewsAction day 30: More talks with MoJ on Monday
Fee cuts and duty provider contracts will be up for discussion.
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NewsAction day 29: SRA warning prompts revised protocol
Solicitors thank the regulator for its ‘timely assistance in these difficult times’.
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NewsAppeal court allows prisoner legal aid challenge
Howard League of Penal Reform and Prisoners’ Advice Service say system is ‘inherently unfair’.
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NewsLegal aid tender process reopens for two areas
Agency seeks new bids for areas that did not attract enough interest first time round.
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NewsAction day 28: SRA issues warning over legal aid action
Regulator concerned solicitors following new protocol for action may not be acting in clients’ best interests.
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NewsAction day 27: barristers officially join legal aid boycott
Solicitors’ boycott against government’s fee cuts changes direction as action targeted at Crown court work.
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News‘Unlawful’ civil legal aid safety net scheme widened
Ministry of Justice amends scope of civil legal aid exceptional case funding – even though the scheme was lambasted by a High Court judge.
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Opinion
Undermining representation
The current criminal legal aid system does not create incentives for proper representation but for an abuse of the system.
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NewsAction was on brink of 'collapse’, practitioner groups reveal
Statement explaining shift in tactics reveals big firms were ready to withdraw from legal aid boycott.
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OpinionCourting unpopularity
The government must not be too dismissive in its responses to consultations.
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NewsNew protocol marks change of tactics in legal aid action
Practitioner groups say allowing police station and magistrates’ work will maintain firms’ cashflow.