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Legal aid danger

22 May 2008
Issue: 7322 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Profession
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News In Brief

The government’s attempt at reform of the legal aid system has become lost and is in need of renewing in order to protect vulnerable groups in society, says a discussion paper from the Bar Council. The paper, Legal Aid and the Public Interest: Towards an Effective Public Private Partnership, sets out the Council’s vision of a “world-call legal system” and argues for a “conditional legal aid fund” to provide legal services to those that cannot afford to pay. Successful claimants would then make a proportional payment to the fund, in addition to costs recovered. The paper also claims that the reforms are endangering the future of the legal system by making it less financially secure.

Issue: 7322 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Profession
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DWF—19 appointments

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Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

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Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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