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Civil Legal Aid ban for non-residents
The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said that people who fail a residency test are to be barred from receiving legal aid for civil court cases. The ban would include claims made under human rights and health and safety law. In an interview with the…
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Criminal Legal Aid cuts
The FT carries a letter from Rick Pratt, QC, and other signatories who say that they have sought to emphasise to Chris Grayling that the fee cuts proposed to criminal practitioners will have the effect of disintegrating an already demoralised criminal Bar, and that they…
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Leading Counsel’s Fees in Legal Aid Cases
Chris Grayling’s need to trim £1 billion from the legal aid budget has caused him to attack the fees being paid to silks in legal aid cases. Frances Gibb in an article on the topic in The Law Page of The Times quotes what Chris…
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Costs in Occupational Disease Claims
Industrial Disease cases exiting the portal go straight to open costs and are not the subject of Fixed Recoverable Costs; either they will be in the portal or in the open costs regime. Chris Grayling has written to the Master of the Rolls to confirm…
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