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02 December 2022
Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Profession , Criminal
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LNB NEWS: Government announces reforms to criminal legal aid lawyers pay and legal aid

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Legal Aid Agency and Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab, have announced that solicitors will see a further £21m investment in fees and long-term reforms and an extra £138m will be spent annually on legal aid ‘to ensure long-term sustainability’. 

Lexis®Library update: The UK government has also published its response to the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid, and these reforms form part of the second phase of that response. The Law Society of England and Wales has warned that Raab has made the ‘wrong decision’ in failing to implement the immediate 15% criminal legal aid rate rise for solicitors.

The government’s full response to the Review can be read here.

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 1 December 2022 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

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