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Controversial Legal Aid Bill set to become law
30-Apr-2012 (0 comments)
The government’s bill to cut legal aid in England is set to become law, and now awaits Royal Assent. As a result of the reforms, all divorce, finance, and private law children cases, subject to exceptions, will be removed from the scope of legal aid funding, as will many domestic violence cases, and most medical negligence cases. During its parliamentary passage, peers had inflicted 14 defeats on the government’s proposed…
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Potential Changes to Clinical Negligence Cases Funding
03-Nov-2011 (0 comments)
Katie Donne of Barcan Woodward provides a brief overview of the proposed changes to the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill and the effect for Clinical Negligence Claimants. This bill, in combination with Lord Justice Jackson’s report entitled ‘review of civil litigation costs’ sets out a draft funding regime which may apply to clinical negligence cases by 2013. Clinical negligence cases by their nature are complex and costly….
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