Legal Aid

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SJ Interview: Harriet Wistrich

For the May 2025 volume, Harriet Wistrich speaks to the Solicitors Journal about her book 'Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men', which has been nominated for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

Appeal success for Mohammed Ali in legal aid remuneration case

Mohammed Ali's appeal for special preparation fees under the Legal Aid Regulations 2013 was successful

Will legal aid, as with so many other public services, simply be co-opted into a system of managed decline?

Daniel Newman, Professor in Law at Cardiff University, Emma Cooke, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent, and Jess Mant, a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, discuss the findings from their recent project funded by the British Academy on the legal aid sector

Legal aid fee dispute dismissed in high court

High Court upholds Legal Aid Agency's decision on prosecution evidence page count, impacting legal aid fees

Legal aid fee dispute resolved in court

High Court dismisses appeal over legal aid fees in robbery case involving alleged use of a bat

High Court rules on legal aid fee dispute

The High Court ruled in favour of Belgravia Solicitors in a legal aid fee dispute involving the classification of a trial

Court rules on legal aid remuneration in Nguyen case

High Court rules on the appropriate count of prosecution evidence pages in a legal aid remuneration dispute

Appeal dismissed due to non-compliance in legal aid costs case

The High Court dismissed an appeal by Harris Solicitors due to procedural non-compliance in a legal aid costs case