All Legal aid and access to justice articles – Page 95
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NewsLawyers critical of free mediation scheme
Family lawyers suggest government funds should be made available to enable couples to get legal aid instead.
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NewsFamily lawyers sound alarm on separating parents
As private family law cases plummet, fears grow that parents will take the law into their own hands.
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NewsCourt should pay for lawyers where agency refuses – Munby
As a ‘last resort’, judges could order HMCTS to pay for lawyers and other experts to ensure fair trials in private law family cases.
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NewsFees plummet as aid cuts starts to bite
Surge in legal aid applications just before the introduction of LASPO means practitioners have yet to feel the full impact of cuts.
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Society plea over contracts regulations
Law Society says number of the provisions are impractical and regulations were not intended to apply to legal aid.
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OpinionPraise legal aid; don’t bury it
The Legal Aid Agency and the Ministry of Justice have been silent on this week’s milestone.
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NewsLegal aid contract tender deferred
The process will open in October, following a call from the Law Society for it to be delayed.
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Law ReportResidence test
The claimant sought judicial review of the secretary of state’s proposal, by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2014, to introduce a residence test for cases most in need of public funding.
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NewsPublic supports legal aid, poll shows
Legal Action Group charity says public opinion has hardened against the government’s legal aid cuts.
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OpinionHappy 65th birthday, legal aid
Plans to cut legal aid in other European states echo reforms in the UK. But protests abound.
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News‘Don’t put legal aid into retirement’
The modern legal aid system was created by the Attlee government in the Legal Advice and Assistance Act 1949.
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NewsLegal aid firms merge to create new giant
SJ Law and Mackesys join forces to create SJ Mackesys Solicitors.
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Law ReportConstitutional law
A British national, was in prison in Bali, Indonesia, awaiting execution by firing squad, following her conviction for drug offences. The defendant secretary of state had provided substantial consular assistance, but he had declined to pay for legal help, relying on what was said to be a rigid policy. The ...
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FeatureThe rise of the specialist: part two
A range of new laws - such as flexible-working provisions, legal aid reforms and the heroism bill - will further boost the emergence of specialist practitioners.
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NewsAid agency ‘in no position’ to tender
Law Society president says prospective bidders do not have enough information to lodge ‘cogent’ bids.
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Opinion
Taking offence over aid cuts
I find the implication that lawyers are contributing nothing deeply offensive.
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Op Cotton silk banks over double legal aid rates
Anthony Peto QC of Blackstone Chambers received £6,300 (excluding VAT) for one-day appeal hearing in May.