Lord Neuberger's claims about legal aid cuts

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 7th March 2013 11:00.

Responding to Lord Neuberger's claims about legal aid cuts, *Citizens Advice Chief Executive Gillian Guy* said:"Legal aid cuts mean over half a...
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Making a separate post for this as it is important to the ill and disabled members we have considering the Government onslaught being suffered by many.

Hope it is of use to you.

Lords defeat part of legal aid cuts

Peers reject draft...

Legal aid: Government defeated in Lords

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 4th December 2012 20:13.

The government has been defeated by 201 to 191 in the House of Lords over plans to restrict legal aid. Peers backed a motion by Labour's Lord Bach...

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Defence costs orders abolished for organisations

Defence costs orders abolished for organisations - Lexology



As part of the changes brought about by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (the Act), from October 2012 Defence Costs Orders...

Human rights challenge to landlords

Human rights challenge to landlords - Lexology



Malik v Grow Heathrow (reported in The Guardian, 19.07.12)
According to Article 8(2) of the Human Rights Act 1998, public authorities must respect an individual’s...

An exception to Jackson: cause for concern



Part 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012 contains the key "Jackson proposals". This includes abolition of recoverability of conditional fee agreement (CFA) success fees and after...

What does the future hold for legal aid in the post-LASPO world? - Lexology


What does the future hold for legal aid in the post-LASPO world?

This was the subject of the annual JUSTICE Tom Sargant memorial lecture given by Roger Smith OBE, Director of Justice, on Tuesday...

Lexology


Clinical negligence legal aid cuts – contact a solicitor now!



Few people (particularly lay people) understand fully the changes that are due to come into place relating to funding of clinical negligence claims.


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Divorce could break the bank after legal aid changes next year

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 17th April 2012 08:31.

Nearly all family law advice will be removed from legal aid scheme, leaving poorer partners struggling to afford a lawyer. Cash-strapped spouses...

Hi guys n gals, i hope someone can help with my problem...

we moved into a rented flat in April 2011, signing a 12 month tenancy agreement.

We received a letter addresses 'to the occupier' a couple of weeks ago stating that NRAM, the landlord's mortgage company, were going...

just looked at the website of the preferred soliciters and think it could be usefull if paul could give people an idea as to the ins and outs of no win no fee it says on the website about disimbusmants and insurance etc i know all cases costs etc are diferant but just a general run down on how it works...

Proposed Legal Aid Reforms

From LAG

http://www.lag.org.uk/files/93815/Fi...encereport.pdf...

Dear Mr. Cameron,
Please find below our suggestion for fixing England 's economy.
Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan..
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There...

Legal Aid granted for unfair bank charges

The Scottish Legal Aid Board have granted full civil legal aid certificates in the cases of Sharp v. Bank of Scotland plc and Reid v. Clydesdale Bank plc. This will enable Govan Law Centre to argue that the overdraft charges applied to our clients'...

The justice minister today announced that ALL divorcing couples will have to attend mediation before going down the court route……

His reasoning “mediation was "a quicker, cheaper and more amicable alternative" to the over-worked family courts”

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