The draft Civil Legal Aid (Merits Criteria) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 have been published; they amend the merits tests for civil legal aid to remove funding from borderline cases. They are due to come into force on 27th January 2014; practitioners dealing with cases that might be classed as borderline would be wise to get applications in before then.
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Legal aid in the news- Fewer providers offering legal aid in Wrexham and Flintshire, according to study - LeaderLive December 12, 2018
- Prayers 'crucial' for release of Pakistani Christian on death row - Premier November 26, 2018
- LCJ: Digital exclusion from online justice “a very small problem” - Legal Futures November 21, 2018
- Acquitted of blasphemy and living in fear in Pakistan - BBC News December 9, 2018
- Trial After Trial: The Plight of Refugees in Britain - Islam21c December 1, 2018
- Guilty: How legal aid cuts and rising training costs are ruining our criminal justice system - The Independent August 16, 2018
- Poorest in society 'excluded' from getting legal aid, finds report - The Independent March 20, 2018
- Two Pakistani Christians sentenced to death for blasphemy - Vatican News December 15, 2018
- Judges in the dock over alleged £12.6million legal aid scam - Daily Mail July 17, 2018
- Anjem Choudary set to mount legal challenge to draconian release conditions - The Telegraph October 19, 2018
Where are teh vires for this in s 11?
David Burrows