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More than 1,000 legal aid solicitors took to the streets this week to protest against proposed changes to the legal aid system that they say will hit the poorest members of society.

Not exact matches

The government's austerity cuts have had a huge impact on the number of solicitors taking on legal aid cases, as Chana's experience testifies to.

According to a New Law Journal report published earlier this year, there's been a 25 % decline in the number of solicitors taking civil legal aid cases.

They certainly weren't essential to the success of the campaign, which instead relied on the hard work of a small but dedicated group and a Judicial Review made possible by legal aid and Leigh Day and Co. solicitors (currently taking on Hunt himself in Lewisham).

As barristers return to man the metaphorical barricades to protest the latest round of legal aid cuts and the solicitors» professional body gloomily predict «extinction» for its ageing members (according to Law Society research, the average age of duty solicitors is 47 years), few lawyers would take issue with the oft - repeated assertion in the legal Twittersphere: #TheLawIsBroken.

A couple of the proposals put forward recognised that solicitors need to be working well with the mediators, perhaps better than before April 2013 when legally aided lawyers tended only to take over after mediation had finished.

Neil Hudgell, managing director of Hudgell, said the decision «brings certainty to law firms up and down the country which have come to the aid of clients who needed solicitors to take over their cases».

Criminal legal aid solicitors across England and Wales were divided on whether to take direct action this week over new contract terms.

Meanwhile, ongoing meetings will take place between the CLSA, London Criminal Court Solicitors Association, Criminal Bar Association and Legal Aid Practitioners Group to decide what happens next.

The casual observer may question if the protest action taken over the last three weeks by criminal solicitors over legal aid fees, and expanded today to include barristers, isn't all just about money.

The principal driver behind the creation of Castle Park Solicitors was the huge reduction in scope of legal aid that took effect in the UK in 2013.

Solicitors with a Legal Aid contract in this area of law are usually limited in the number of cases they can take on.

There can be little doubt that, unless steps are taken by legal practitioners to fill the void created by the withdrawal of legal aid and the increase in the small claims limit, the reforms could lead to the closure of many more firms of solicitors and barristers chambers.

The committee agreed that NfPs should be paid on the same basis as legal aid solicitors, but urged that care would have to be taken to see that the transitional arrangements were such as to permit NfPs to adjust to the new situation.

Darryll Thomas from High Street - based mfg Solicitors is to take on the gruelling London Marathon in aid of the Stroke Association, for whom he acts.

What the claimant's submissions really came to was that a solicitor such as the claimant was entitled to a period of time during which they continued to take instructions and run up costs while they gathered information in relation to the proceedings contemplated, and only once the gathering of that information had prompted them to consider that their client might be eligible for legal aid, were they obliged to act.

A solicitor has to be bound at the outset to consider the question whether or not a client might be eligible for legal aid; they are not entitled to a period of time in which to continue taking instructions while gathering information in relation to contemplated proceedings.

Before the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO), solicitors provided crucial initial advice for people going through separation under the legal aid scheme, helping them to understand their options and steps they needed to taAid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO), solicitors provided crucial initial advice for people going through separation under the legal aid scheme, helping them to understand their options and steps they needed to taaid scheme, helping them to understand their options and steps they needed to take.

The Law Society or your local citizens» advice bureau will be able to give you the names of solicitors who take part in the Legal Aid scheme and are experienced in these matters.