criminal legal aid

This would remove 90pc of all criminal legal aid from being assessed.

Criminal legal aid has become big business for lawyers.

The international comparisons are skewed by criminal legal aid.

Joshua Rozenberg asks if too many lawyers are trying to live off criminal legal aid.

It is also often used to pay for the preliminary work involved in making applications for civil and criminal legal aid.

'This case is about ensuring that proper representation remains available to those who need criminal legal aid.

Criminal legal aid is generally provided through private firms of solicitors and barristers in private practice.

Moreover, franchising had the potential of extending beyond the green form scheme to civil and criminal legal aid.

Criminal legal aid is next.

A big step up came when the Lord Chancellor took over criminal legal aid from the Home Secretary in 1980.

It would have included responsibility for the finance, organization and administration of the Magistrates' courts, and for criminal legal aid.

It provides both civil and criminal legal aid and advice in England and Wales.

There is a separate system of criminal legal aid, and legal aid is also available for legal advice.

Increased expenditure on criminal legal aid made advocacy economically attractive to those firms which had traditionally ignored this down-market branch of legal practice.

"Pro bono" from a commercial city lawyer donating a few hours a week isn't going to be terribly useful when the criminal legal aid budget is slashed.

The unexpected reduction in the number of criminal legal aid orders granted over the last few months means that expenditure will in any event be lower than originally expected.

It refers to the means testing for criminal legal aid....but we don't have the attached schedules stipulating where the cut off point will be....

The Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at Leeds University is embarking on a research project to examine decision-making in the administration of criminal legal aid.

This rule is of lesser significance because of the existence of criminal legal aid and because prosecutions brought by the Crown Prosecution Service are funded by government.

They show how the market for solicitors' work has altered with the development of criminal legal aid and the threat to established sources of income from divorce, conveyancing and personal injury claims.

Though not expressly so stated as in the case of criminal appeals where there is a criminal legal aid order, it seems that a civil legal aid certificate will also cover advice on appeal.

The main study will focus on four particular courts, but the researchers will be grateful to receive any comments from readers of the Review on experiences with, or impressions of, the system of criminal legal aid.

Lord Fraser told the committee that a consultation paper on the Government's review of eligibility of criminal legal aid, the costs of which have spiralled faster than civil costs, would be published in the summer.

Even if the CPS decides there is enough evidence to prosecute, and that it is in the public interest to do so, the offender is entitled to opt for trial at crown court, with full criminal legal aid.

It does not for the moment wish to take on additional responsibilities in respect of criminal legal aid, means assessments and determinations and taxations of costs, given that it is not at present in a position to do the work more effectively.