Resources
Contents
- Housing justice campaign briefing paper
- HLPA’s legal aid updates
- Constitutional Affairs Select Committee (‘CASC’) report
- Other information about the impact of fixed fees
- Press coverage about impact of fixed fees
- Related campaigns
- Information for practitioners: the fixed fee rules
- Other important legal aid information for practitioners
- Law society judicial review of Unified Contract
1) Housing justice campaign briefing paper
2) HLPA’s legal aid updates
- HLPA legal aid update no. 4 (10/10/07)
- HLPA legal aid update no. 3 (6/7/07)
- HLPA legal aid update no. 2 (5/6/07)
- HLPA legal aid update no. 1 (3/5/07)
3) Constitutional Affairs Select Committee (‘CASC’) report
- Report on the Implementation of the Carter Review of Legal Aid (18/4/07)
- Government’s response to CASC report (6/07)
- Minutes of Westminster Hall debate on the CASC report (12/7/07)
4) Other information about the impact of fixed fees
- Cumulative impact assessment: Legal aid reform programme phase 1 (12/07)
- Civil fee schemes: summary of their combined impacts, LSC (8/07)
- Fixed fees, equality and diversity, Advice Services Alliance research report (6/07)
- Legal Aid, Human Rights and Housing, Journal of Housing Law (7/07)
- Freedom of Information Act response re average case costs v peer review score (8/6/07)
- Case Lengths, Case Costs and Fixed Fees, Advice Services Alliance research report (5/07)
5) Press coverage about impact of fixed fees
- Cases closed: Non-profit law centres give advice to hundreds of thousands of people. But there are fears many will soon be forced to shut, Guardian (12/3/08)
- Labour’s handling of legal aid makes a mockery of its rhetoric on fairness, Guardian (10/3/08)
- Cheap at twice the price, Guardian (9/1/08)
- Solicitors shunning legal aid work as pay rates fall, survey reveals, Guardian (7/1/08)
- LSC: pay cut for 55% of legal aid firms, Law Society Gazette (13/12/07)
- The scandal of this assault on legal aid, Independent (13/12/07)
- Legal aid reforms unlawful, says top judge, The Times (29/11/07)
- Cashflow crisis, Law Society Gazette (11/10/07)
- Demand for legal aid soars as scheme faces cutbacks, Guardian (17/6/07)
- Cashflow crisis, Law Society Gazette (11/10/07)
- Timed out, The Guardian (8/8/07)
- Knowledge of the law not strictly necessary, Independent Lawyer (8/07)
- What price justice?, The Guardian (3/7/07)
- Serving justice, The Guardian (13/6/07)
- Aid protest by lawyers, Kingston Guardian (30/5/07)
- Law centre free advice under threat, Bury Times (24/5/07)
- Cuts leave black hole in legal aid provision say protestors, Sheffield Star (22/5/07)
- Legal Aid reforms ‘would hit most vulnerable’, Camden New Journal (18/5/07)
- Protests against cuts in legal aid, Surrey Comet (17/5/07)
- Legal Opinion: Ministers told to rethink dangerous legal aid reforms, The Independent (2/5/07)
- Legal aid changes may hurt minorities, Reuters (1/5/07) []
- Legal aid reforms 'would limit access to justice for the needy' (1/5/07)
- Poor likely to suffer in fees dispute as some legal aid firms hold out, The Guardian (2/4/07)
- On the wrong side of the law, The Guardian (21/2/07)
- The Big Question: Are we spending too much on legal aid, and do the right people benefit? (29/11/06)
- Legal aid in crisis as clients are abandoned (8/10/06)
- Legal aid overhaul to cut costs, BBC (13/7/06)
6) Related campaigns
7) Information for practitioners: the fixed fee rules
- Community Legal Service (Funding) Order 2007 No.2441
- Unified Contract Specification - General provisions (1/10/07)
- Unified Contract Specification – Housing provisions (1/10/07)
- Unified Contract Specification – Payment Annex (1/10/07)
- Nfp Unified Contract Transitional Provisions (8/07)
8) Other important legal aid information for practitioners
- Improving your quality: housing (peer review quality guide) (03/08)
- Access targets: letter to ASA (proposed spend per area against current spent) (01/08)
- Quality questions and answers (12/07) Assuring and improving quality in the reformed legal aid system (12/07)
- Substantially revised Funding Code Criteria, Procedures and Guidance (1/10/07)
- Revised cost assessment guidance
9) Law society judicial review of Unified Contract
- Deed of settlement between Law Society, LSC and MoJ (3/2/08)
- In the Court of Appeal, R(Law Society) v Legal Services Commission [2007] EWCA Civ 1264
- Law Society’s position on impact of Court of Appeal judgment
- Law Society pre-action protocol letter re further judicial review proceedings (1/14/08)
- In the High Court, see R (Law Society) v Legal Services Commission [2007] EWHC 1848 (Admin)