R (London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association and others) v Lord Chancellor [2015] EWCA Civ 230, [2015] EWHC 295 (Admin), [2014] EWHC 4733 (Admin)-- represented the claimant / appellant solicitors» associations in their challenges to the Lord Chancellor's decisions
concerning criminal legal aid tenders.
Further information about the dispute
concerning the criminal legal aid contracts can be found on the Law Society Gazette website here and the Solicitors Journal website here.
Not exact matches
Despite current
concerns with
legal aid fee cuts and competitive tendering,
criminal lawyers accounted for only 7 % of calls.
We all are extremely
concerned about the situation in relation to
criminal legal aid.
If you were fixated with an ideological
concern to introduce best value tendering into
criminal legal aid then there are areas where you could do it.
BEPS v Lord Chancellor Advised a
criminal legal aid firm on the merits and prospects of success of claim against Lord Chancellor
concerning the 2015
criminal legal aid duty provider procurement exercise and then drafted particulars of claim in a complicated claim involving four tender applications in different procurement areas.
AA Law v Lord Chancellor Advised a
criminal legal aid firm on the merits and prospects of success of claim against Lord Chancellor
concerning the 2015
criminal legal aid duty provider procurement exercise and then drafted particulars of claim in a complicated claim involving allegations of race discrimination and subconscious bias.
R. v Jagelo (Costs)[2016] 1 Costs L.O. 133 Case
concerning the application of the
legal aid rules in
criminal cases.
In the committee's view, «[r] adical reforms of the
criminal and civil
legal aid system, intended to put
legal aid on a more sustainable footing, can only be planned on the basis of a fuller understanding of the actual reasons for the increase in expenditure in the areas of
concern».