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Local Criminal Justice Board: Call for Evidence – Legal Sector
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...
‘Degrading and demoralising’: High Court hears evidence from criminal legal aid solicitors
The Law Society Gazette By Monidipa Fouzder 14 December 2023
The hearing of R (The Law Society) v the Lord Chancellor begins today in front of the High Court.
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...
Law Society and CLSA win on all points at interim JR hearing
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...
Law Society wins disclosure application before judicial review challenge
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
Nascent Visual Biometrics in Police Intelligence and Criminal Evidence – Impacts on Reliability and Fairness
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...