Sentences with phrase «criminal legal aid tenders»

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.

All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid — 22 October 2015 On 22 October 2015 there was a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal Aid, which this month focused on the outcome of the criminal legal aid tender and the impact of family legal aid cuts on victims of domestic abuse.

It's going to discuss the outcome of the criminal legal aid tender as well as hearing from the director of Rights of Women about the domestic violence evidence criteria for legal aid.

Jon Black then spoke about the current situation regarding the recent criminal legal aid tender for duty solicitor contracts.

R (London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2015] EWHC 295 (Admin) Junior to Jason Coppel QC; challenge to the criminal legal aid tender process on rationality, Tameside and procurement grounds on behalf of criminal legal aid defence firms (instructed by Kingsley Napley)

Not exact matches

The government plans to introduce a system of price competitive tendering (PCT) into criminal defence work with the aim of slashing a further # 220m from the legal aid bill and cutting the number of contracts from 1,600 to around 400 providers.

The Government has just announced that it plans to bring forward to April 2013 its consultation on introducing competitive tendering for criminal legal aid work.

The proposals, if implemented, will have the effect that many migrants and prisoners will no longer be eligible for legal aid; access to judicial review will be restricted; contracts for criminal work will be the subject of competitive tendering; and fees paid to legal aid solicitors and barristers will be reduced, by more than 50 % in some instances.

The subject of the meeting will be competitive tendering (BVT) for criminal legal aid contracts.

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Fortunately, such were the problems with the duty tenders, at least for this Parliament competitive tendering for criminal legal aid is unlikely to be resurrected, but a further clash with criminal legal aid firms is on the horizon.

Chris Grayling announced his plans for competitive tendering for criminal legal aid in April 2013.

Despite current concerns with legal aid fee cuts and competitive tendering, criminal lawyers accounted for only 7 % of calls.

Two pilots in best value tendering and the introduction of Crown Court Means Testing early next year will be vital in our efforts to keep on top of the criminal legal aid budget.

Among the great advantages of the 2006 Carter report, Legal Aid: A Marketbased Approach to Reform, was that it quietly rescued the commission from the nightmare consequences of its proposed tendering of criminal services.

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.

Criminal legal aid lawyers face extinction if best value tendering (BVT) is introduced the Law Society says.

A consultation on the principles of best value tendering (BVT) for criminal defence services, and a policy paper — Assuring and Improving Quality in the Reformed Legal Aid System — have been published by the Legal Services Commission (LSC).

The Government has today announced that it will scrap the controversial two - tier system for criminal legal aid contracts, in the face of a concerted challenge to the tender procedure for placing 527 duty provider contracts.

The tendering process for the new criminal legal aid contracts was put on hold by the Administrative Court, following an application for interim relief by the LCCSA and CLSA.

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.

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.

The government's proposal for «competitive tendering» for criminal legal aid is part of a group of proposals which are supposed to save # 220 million a year over the next five years.