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Contents

1. Housing justice campaign briefing paper
2. Civil contracts from 2010
3. Constitutional Affairs Select Committee (‘CASC’) report
4. Other information about the impact of fixed fees
5. Press coverage about impact of fixed fees
6. Related campaigns
7. Information for practitioners: the fixed fee rules
8. Other important legal aid information for practitioners
9. Law society judicial review of Unified Contract
10. HLPA’s legal aid updates

1) Housing justice campaign briefing paper

• Campaign briefing paper

2) Civil contracts from 2010

• Legal Services Commission consultation paper (10/08)  – Part 1 and Part 2
• HLPA response (21/1/09)
• Law Society response (23/1/09)

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

• Access to Justice Alliance
• What Price Justice Campaign

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)

10) 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)