Legal Aid

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Budget and legal aid cuts are forcing law centres to rethink their operation

Under financial pressure from funding cuts and the forthcoming legal aid bill, not-for-profit organisations must consider options they once spurned, says Michael Ashe

Wisdom of the crowd

The government has largely disregarded public opinion in its haste to reform the legal aid system, but the downgrading of access to civil justice will rebound on them, says Steve Hynes

Three legal aid defeats and two concessions

Lords have inflicted defeats on the government during the report stage of its legal aid bill on the first three amendments they considered last night.

Government giving 'as little as possible' on legal aid

Medical negligence and domestic violence concessions fail to satisfy critics

Ministers make 'minimal' concessions on legal aid

The government has made two minor, widely-trailed, concessions on the legal aid bill, which is to return to the House of Lords next week for its report stage.

A brewing storm

Trying to keep divorcing couples out of the courts will prove fruitless – the government should be focusing on making the justice system quicker and easier for clients, argues Marilyn Stowe

Djanogly gives ground on medical negligence and domestic violence

Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly has said the government will make compromises on legal aid for children in medical negligence cases and the definition of domestic violence, while refusing to budge on the “main tenets” of the legal aid bill.

First legal aid concession on means testing at police stations

The government has made what appears to be its first substantial concession on the legal aid bill by abandoning a plan to means test police station advice.