Sentences with phrase «criminal legal aid expenditures»
It concludes that expenditure could fall by between # 20 # 111m and also argues that further savings could also accrue from efficiencies in the criminal justice system (see Forecasting Criminal Legal Aid Expenditure: 2017 update — a report for The Law Society, Oxford Economics, January 2017).
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The Oxford Economics report forecasts expenditure in criminal legal aid based on trends in rates of crime and prosecution.
Since criminal defence work currently was the major driver in overall legal aid expenditure, piloting competitive tendering in the area of criminal legal aid would be justified.
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».
Lord Bach's answers to questions were notable for his insistence that government policy is to reduce the amount of criminal legal aid and increase expenditure on social welfare law.