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LNB NEWS: MoJ to launch review into civil legal aid market

06 January 2023
Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Family
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that the government will be undertaking a review looking into ways to better the civil legal aid market through improving the sustainability of the legal aid system for people facing civil and family legal issues. 

Lexis®Library update: The review is expected to involve the commission of an external economic analysis of the civil legal aid market to better understand how people access funding and support, consider areas such as family, housing, mental health, education, discrimination and immigration, investigate taxpayer value for money, and assess how such systems work in other comparable countries. The government will be issuing a tender in January 2023 inviting third parties to bid to undertake the external analysis, and the final report is due to be published in 2024.

Justice Minister, Lord Bellamy, said: ‘This comprehensive review will give us a wealth of evidence on the civil legal aid systems, how services are provided, and of the issues facing the market. Identifying how we can make provision work best for everyone will help ensure we are building a more efficient and effective system to deliver sustainable legal aid support well into the future.’

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 5 January 2023 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

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