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Government Funding (Legal Aid)"

Table on the Provision of Government Funded Legal Services

Commentary on the Provision of Legal Services (Govt. and Private)

Useful resources include the following:

• Criminal Defence Service Act 2006

• Legal Services Commission

• Access to Justice Act 1999  (Explanatory Note)

• Community Legal Service

 

From the LCD:

• the Community Legal Service

 

ARTICLES

Law Teacher hosts these articles to help students studying government funding, and legal aid. Any artices that are unlinked can be found in newspaper archives.

1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000

1997

• 'No win, less fee' contracts could cut legal aid bill (The Times, February 5 1997)

• Judges protest at 'far-fetched' legal aid cases (The Times, July 28 1997)

• No win, no fee, no solution (The Times, October 28 1997)

• Why the Lord Chancellor is right (The Times, November 4 1997)

 

1998

• Legal aid may go in 60 per cent of civil disputes (The Times, March 5 1998)

• 60% rise in legal aid fraud inquiries (The Times, May 8 1998)

• Legal aid from the doctor's surgery (The Times, October 20 1998)

• Small solicitor firms could be lost in change (The Times, October 24 1998)

• Modernising justice (LCD, 2 December 1998)

• Irvine seeks openness and value for money (The Times, December 3 1998)

• Turning justice into 'a sausage machine' (The Times, December 3 1998)

• Lawyers ordered to justify charges (The Times, December 29 1998)

 

1999

• Lord Chancellor raises qualifying limits for legal aid (LCD, 16 March 1999)

• Irvine clashes with Law Society (The Times, April 26 1999)

• Immigration lawyers face legal aid ban (The Times, May 18 1999)

• Bar agrees to curb legal aid fees (The Times, June 14 1999)

• Costs cover for 'no win, no fee' libel cases (The Times, July 7 1999)

• Legal aid: past imperfect, future conditional (The Times, July 20 1999)

• Criminal lawyers face fixed price deal (The Times, August 3 1999)

• Consultation begins on recovery of success fees and insurance premiums in conditional fee agreements
  (LCD, 23 September 1999)

• Judges condemn legal services plan (The Times, October 14 1999)

• No win, no fee, no risk (Independent, 11 November 1999)

• Lord Irvine is whistling in the dark (The Times, November 16 1999)

• Contracts awarded for new era of legal aid (LCD, 30 November 1999)

• Number of firms providing legal aid is halved to 5,000 (Independent, 1 December 1999)

• Barristers' pay is cut by £50m in assault on legal aid (The Times, December 7 1999)

• Legal aid fees and access to justice (The Times, December 13 1999)

• Lord Chancellor announces first legal services commission chair (LCD, 17 December 1999)

 

2000

• Lawyers on £250,000 a year to get 30% rise (Independent, 16 February 2000)

• Move to end payment disparity between defence and prosecution advocates (LCD, 17 February 2000)

• Lawyer in legal aid fraud (The Times, February 18 2000)

• Pioneers lay foundations for Community Legal Service to build on (LCD, 6 March 2000)

• Barristers' fees to be sharply cut (Independent, 20 March)

• Solicitors' vote to strike may deny victims legal aid (Independent, 23 March 2000)

• The law office of the future (The Times, March 28 2000)

• The Access to Justice Act 1999 provisions coming into effect on 1 April 2000 (LCD, 30 March 2000)

• Website offers legal aid (The Times, April 3 2000)

• Chancellor's new service offers easy access to quality legal advice (The Times, April 4 2000)

• Survey slates legal aid as 'second-rate' (Independent, 16 May 2000)

• Solicitors to strike for first time over shake-up of legal aid system (Independent, 2 June 2000)

• Criminal Defence Service, salaried defender service goes out to consultation (LCD, 13 June 2000)

• Criminal Defence Service, consultation paper on choice of representative (LCD, 13 June 2000)

• Courts to have US-style state defence lawyers (The Times, June 14 2000)

• The dangers of public defenders (The Times, June 20 2000)

• CLS partnership to reach out to 50% of population in England & Wales (LCD, 30 June 2000)

• Legal aid solicitors launch low-pay protest (The Times, July 3 2000)

• 'Dozens of clients are turned away every week' (The Times, July 4 2000)

• Lord Chancellor announces proposals for advocates' fees for criminal and family cases (LCD, 4 July 2000)

• Defence lawyers face 10% pay cut (The Times, July 5 2000)

• Community Legal Service: consultation paper on financial conditions in civil cases (LCD, 31 July 2000)

• Legal aid curb on home owners (The Times, August 2 2000)

• New system proposed for testing the means of criminal defendants (LCD, 13 September 2000)

• Underfunded and overstretched (The Times, October 10 2000)

• Barristers should offer more direct access (The Times, October 10 2000)

• Legal aid cuts 'will drive away best barristers' (The Times, October 16 2000)

• Fury at public defender plans (The Times, October 16 2000)

• Two-thirds of England & Wales have embraced Community Legal Service partnerships (LCD, 24 October 2000)

• Solicitors to shun legal aid work in pay dispute (The Times, November 6 2000)

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