Legal aid cuts: penny-wise and pound-foolish – The Guardian
“Cutting funds for the poor and vulnerable to defend their rights will simply push the costs on to other government departments.”
The Guardian, 1st April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Category: budgets
Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 – legislation.gov.uk
Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Legal aid cuts: misleading statistics from the MoJ – The Guardian
“LAG believes that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has been guilty of playing rather fast and loose in its interpretation of the figures on the impact of the proposed civil legal aid cuts.”
The Guardian, 18th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Ken Clarke warned over ‘catastrophic’ community punishment cuts – The Guardian
“Imminent budget cuts are set to create a funding ‘black hole’ in the criminal justice system with catastrophic consequences for innovative community sentences, experts have warned.”
The Guardian, 8th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Child Poverty Action Group mounts legal challenge to welfare reform – The Guardian
“The government is facing a legal challenge to its controversial plans to cap housing benefit payments on the grounds that large areas of the south-east will become off limits to the poor, with lone parents and ethnic minorities ‘disproportionately affected’.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Library campaigners mount legal challenges to closures – The Guardian
“Pressure is building on culture secretary Jeremy Hunt over library closures, with the mounting of two new legal challenges.”
The Guardian, 1st March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Classifying offenders could lead to criminal justice revolution – The Guardian
“Imagine being able to predict which offenders will go on to commit serious crimes. Juliet Rix on a new system that could have a drastic impact on the justice system.”
The Guardian, 2nd March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Most senior judge attacks legal aid plans – Daily Telegraph
“Cuts to legal aid will have ‘serious implications for the quality of justice’, the country’s most senior judge warned yesterday in a scathing attack on Kenneth Clarke’s plans.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Related link: Q&A: Legal Aid
Library cuts in Somerset and Gloucestershire challenged – BBC News
“A High Court challenge is being launched over public library closures.”
BBC News, 23rd February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Q&A: Building Schools for the Future court case – The Guardian
“Details of the judicial review into the government’s scrapping of the school building programme.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Butler-Sloss issues warning over legal aid cuts – Law Society’s Gazette
“The government’s planned legal aid cuts will have a ‘serious adverse long-term effect’ on the justice system, a former president of the family division of the High Court has warned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th February 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Gove loses court battle over cancelled school building projects – The Guardian
“A high court judge has ordered the education secretary, Michael Gove, to reconsider his decision to cancel scores of multimillion-pound school rebuilding projects.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal aid cuts ‘crude and brutal’ – The Independent
“Proposed cuts to the legal aid budget will cost more than they save and could leave more than half a million people ‘silenced in court’, legal experts have warned.”
The Independent, 14th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Supreme Court independence ‘threatened’ by funding – BBC News
“The president of the UK’s Supreme Court has warned that its independence cannot be properly guaranteed because of the way it is funded by the government.”
BBC News, 9th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Fawcett Society loses court challenge to legality of budget – The Guardian
“The Fawcett Society has been refused permission to challenge the legality of the government’s emergency budget.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal aid lawyers were struggling even before the cuts – The Guardian
“These are dark days for junior legal aid lawyers. Even before the cuts to the legal aid budget were announced last month, they were struggling to get by on salaries that are among the lowest in the public sector (£16,650 for trainee solicitors and £10,000 for trainee barristers, rising to little more than £25,000 after several years in the job). Now they’re bracing themselves for their practices to be decimated as many of their clients lose eligibility for state funding.”
The Guardian, 3rd December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
High court judge to rule if coalition’s budget is biased against women – The Guardian
“A high court challenge aimed at overturning the government’s emergency, summer budget is due to be heard today.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
George Osborne to be investigated by watchdog over cuts – The Guardian
“Equality commission set to launch formal assessment into the Treasury’s conduct prior to last month’s spending review.”
The Guardian, 26th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal aid: annotated government proposals for reform – The Guardian
“Legal affairs correspondent, Afua Hirsch, dissects the green paper on legal aid and gives her views on the most important passages. Click on the highlighted paragraphs to read their comments or use the annotations bar at the top of the page to flick through them.”
Proposal for Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales
The Guardian, 17th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Appeal court ruling clears way for councils to cut social care services – The Guardian
“Local councils have been given the green light by the courts to cut social care services to elderly and disabled people previously assessed by law as needing them.”
The Guardian, 4th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
