Legal Aid

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No easy answers

Will technological solutions and outsourcing help or hinder legal aid practices, asks Russell Conway

Consumers left out of third party litigation funds

Third party litigation funding will not plug any gaps in access to justice, according to the first academic study on the issue.

Grieve promises "period of silence" on legal aid

Dominic Grieve QC, the new Attorney General, has promised a “period of silence” from the government before it launches a fundamental review of legal aid.

Special delivery

Small legal aid firms must embrace new ways to deliver their services if they are to avoid closure. William Flack considers the main two models and how these might evolve in the future

Supreme Court sends defective vaccine case into impasse

Lawyers for an eleven-year old child who claims he has suffered brain damage as a result of a defective vaccine have been left to ponder over the exact implications of the Supreme Court ruling in the case.

Update: wills and probate

The last few months have produced contrasting decisions about the court's power to remove executors, a reappraisal of the criteria of testamentary capacity and a useful ruling on inheritance tax, says Helen Bryant

A question of independence

Independent inquiries following complaints against the police are still a rarity and the IPCC must recognise its responsibility to undertake more investigations, says Sophie Khan

£325m MoJ cuts target prison building

The £325m of cuts in the MoJ's budget announced by chancellor George Osborne this morning will target prison building, it has emerged.