Family lawyers have voiced concern at a new “uneconomic” fixed fee structure for family legal aid work.
Civil & criminal systems could be separated under Ministry of Justice proposals
“Bombed—lost everything”. That was how one London Citizens Advice bureau memorably recorded the nature of the legal problems for the newly dispossessed “streams” of clients approaching the nascent service. War was declared on 3 September 1939 and the first bureau opened its doors the next day.
As legal aid limps past 60, Elsa Booth suggests the adoption of some alternative funding pathways
If it’s a 60 in London, it’s only 35 in Washington. National legal aid got going later in the US. President Obama issued a special proclamation celebrating the 35th birthday of a US national civil legal aid service through the establishment of a legal service corporation.
Maximum rates for experts and cuts to criminal work among proposed changes
The tendering date for civil and criminal legal aid contracts has been pushed back six months to October 2010 to give the Legal Services Commission (LSC) time to finalise arrangements.
Legal Aid Minister Lord Bach marked the 60th anniversary of the introduction of legal aid, this week, with a pledge that vulnerable people “most in need” would get the right help at a cost that was fair to practitioners and fair to the taxpayer.
MPs have condemned proposals to cut legal aid as “flawed, weak and inflexible”.
Logic dictates that the personal injury small claims limit will have to rise, says Peter Thompson QC
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