“Tens of thousands of people pursuing asylum and immigration cases have been left without support after the Immigration Advisory Service, a charity, went into unannounced administration, blaming government changes to legal aid.”
The Guardian, 11th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Legal Services Commission has published a plan for the tender process for new interim family contracts to start in February 2012.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Tucked away on page 52 of the government’s response to the legal aid green paper were words that would make many criminal lawyers shudder: ‘We intend to consult on detailed proposals for introducing competition in criminal proceedings later in the year.’ ”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Taxpayers are funding almost £70,000 a day on legal aid for prisoners after a 25-fold increase in the last decade.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government is putting the NHS ‘above the law’ with its proposed legal aid reforms and changes to the ‘no win, no fee’ arrangements, the Gazette has been told.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 7th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The government has no intention of removing legal help from people detained at police stations, justice minister Jonathan Djanogly confirmed today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“High-profile cases against multinational corporations may have to be scrapped under the government’s new litigation regime, lawyers suggested today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A leading solicitor says cuts to the legal aid budget being debated in Parliament could ‘clog up’ the court system in Wales.”
BBC News, 4th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A disability charity has mounted a High Court challenge to oppose government plans to reform ‘no win, no fee’ arrangements.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Plan to scrap automatic access to legal aid solicitors is a full-blown assault on the universal right to representation.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A close reading of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill has left many lawyers, campaign groups and politicians who support the legal aid system more worried than ever about future provision.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Squatters will no longer get legal aid to fight home owners trying to evict them from their properties, under proposals set out in the Sentencing, Legal Aid and Punishment of Offenders Bill which has it’s second reading in the House of Commons today.”
Ministry of Justice, 29th June 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The government’s plans to cut legal aid in England and Wales return to Parliament later as opposition mounts from lawyers and campaigners.”
BBC News, 29th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Today I am talking to Professor Gary Slapper, Director of the Law School at The Open University. We look at the relentless march towards privatisation in legal education, the Legal Aid reforms and briefly examine the criticism of Jeffrey Samuels QC in the Dowler case.”
Charon QC, 28th June 2011
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“The only female justice on the supreme court, Lady Hale, has highlighted the impact of the proposed cuts in legal aid, declaring that they would have a ‘disproportionate effect upon the poorest and most vulnerable in society’.”
The Guardian, 28th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The bill all but removes sweeteners introduced in the 1990s when legal aid was abolished in most personal injury claims.”
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The Guardian, 28th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers and MPs have expressed outrage at the government’s attempt to fast track the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill through Parliament.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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