A Law Society report has estimated that a quarter of all current providers of legal aid could close as reforms are introduced by which solicitors would have to bid competitively for all legal aid work instead of a set rate per hour. This will obviously make it difficult for practices to run solely on legal aid cases, hence the estimate in numbers of providers closing.
Legal aid is a vital method of ensuring justice is for everyone, rather than the privileged few. Such an action could be expected by a right wing goverment. Oh, hang on....
Meanwhile, footballer, sometime llama impersonator and earner of tens of thousands of pounds per week El Hadji Diouf - currently on bail over an alleged assault on his wife - claimed legal aid while defending himself in case regarding him gobbing at an 11-year old.
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So instead of the system being based on a government handout for the legal workers its actually going to be based on a competitive rate for the job based on individuals tendering for the work ?
Sounds like they've just joined the rest of us in the real world.
So instead of the system being based on a government handout for the legal workers its actually going to be based on a competitive rate for the job based on individuals tendering for the work ?
Sounds like they've just joined the rest of us in the real world.
How did that happen then ?
Don't know how that happened. Technology innit.....
And while it is sort of bringing it into the competitive environment everyoen is used to, the question is 'should it be?'
I would say not, as it removes the principle of justice being for everyone, which I believe is a cornerstone of society
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