Transforming Legal Aid: delivering a more credible and efficient system Response to Consultation This response addresses only one issue in the consultation document: the quality requirements to be imposed on those delivering what is now criminal legal aid. This is dealt with in paras 4.135 to 4.152. The provisions governing...
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Roger Smith is an expert in domestic and international aspects of legal aid, human rights and access to justice.
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Legal aid: the cuts, the context and the challenge
This is a forensic analysis (for the Westminster Legal Policy Forum on 23 April) of the effect of a range of measures on legal aid, of which the LASPO cuts are the centrepiece. It is not a lament or a protest: this is not the time or the place. My...
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Best integrated legal advice provision in the world?
LawAccess New South Wales is designed as a ‘one stop shop’ providing referral, legal information and self help assistance in New South Wales. It is a joint project of the NSW Ministry of Justice, the NSW Legal Aid Commission and legal profession with the Combined Community Legal Centres and...
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Online legal advice websites in the UK: the current state of play
This is a draft assessment on the current state of online legal advice in the UK. Comments are really welcome in relation to sites that should be considered; judgements that should be made or altered; or anything else. Overall, the level and presentation of legal advice online in the UK...
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There will be blood: price competition and crime
There will be blood. There will also be price competition for criminal contracts. No matter that speaker after speaker lined up at yesterday’s All Party Parliamentary Group on legal aid to denounce it. Yes: the consultation period of eights weeks is short. Yes: despite five consultations on the subject since...
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