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The Criminal Law Solicitors‘ Association and the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association welcome the High Court’s landmark judgment on Legal Aid funding and urge the Government to implement the full financial recommendation in the Bellamy review without delay...

The government have today published a consultation on Lower Crime Legal Aid Rates below. https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/crime-lower-consultation/ We will be considering the content and replying in detail in due course. We cautiously welcome...

Dear legal community The Ministry of Justice has launched a Call for Evidence on Local Criminal Justice Boards (LCJBs) on 8 January 2024. Local Criminal Justice System (CJS) partners are crucial to driving improvements across the system, and this Call for Evidence...

The Law Society Gazette By Monidipa Fouzder 14 December 2023

The Law Society are challenging the decisions of the Lord Chancellor not to implement the recommendations of the Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review in full. The Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review was a government commissioned review into the state of the...

On 28th November the High Court held an interim hearing of the JR brought by the Law Society, with the CLSA as an interested party, against the failure to implement the Bellamy recommendations in full. At the hearing the Judge made it clear that he wanted to keep the...

The Law Society Gazette By Bianca Castro - 29th November 2023 https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/law-society-wins-disclosure-bid-before-legal-aid-challenge/5118051.article

I am a PhD (Law) student at Northumbria University, and as part of my PhD research I am gathering the opinions of criminal solicitors throughout England and Wales on new types of evidence we are beginning to see in Magistrate courts. These opinions are collected in...

CLSA response to Arrangements for SRA regulations of CILEX members Consultation

Letter from Nick Goodwin CEO to WICL 14 Nov 2023