The Law Society Council member for immigration, Charles James, has abandoned legal aid work because of failures within the Legal Services Commission (LSC), he said last week.
He said: 'The LSC has moved the goalposts so that it is no longer possible to break even in legal aid work. The auditing process is disallowing work that was genuinely and honestly done because it falls outside their definition of the contract. The auditors are making the wrong decisions and are not properly trained.'
An LSC spokesman said it was disappointed that Mr James' firm, James & Co in Bradford, had withdrawn - but added that recent reforms had enabled the LSC to ensure quality and value for money.
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