Sentences with phrase «introduced criminal legal aid»
Young Legal Aid Lawyers co-chairs Oliver Carter and Rachel Francis presented an introduction to YLAL and a brief history of legal aid, from the Poor Prisoners Defence Act 1903, which introduced criminal legal aid for defendants in the higher criminal courts, to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), which wholly or partially removed a number of areas of law from the scope of legal aid.
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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.
We have already made clear our intention to introduce price competition in the criminal legal aid market, as the best way to ensure long - term sustainability and value for money.
The LSC argues that to meet the aims of quality, efficiency among suppliers, and value for money, a BVT system should be introduced for criminal legal aid 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.