Legal aid on an ebbing tide

Journal of Law and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 570-579

  Smith, Roger ^a,b  

^a Legal Action Group   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0039333814     PISSN: 0263323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1410481     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Lord Chancellor's Dept., Striking the Balance: The Future of Legal Aid in England and Wales (1996; Cm. 3305).
2. Lord Chancellor's Dept., Legal Aid - Targeting Need: The future of publicly funded help in solving problems and disputes in England and Wales (1995; Cm. 2854) para 1.1
3. Lord Chancellor's Dept., Legal Aid: Striking the Balance: For people who are not legally
4. Lord Chancellor's Dept., Legal Aid: Striking the Balance: For the taxpayer (1996).
5. Lord Woolf, Access to Justice: Final Report (1996).
6. Lord Mackay, 'Why we should avoid spending public money where the market can provide', speech, 28 August 1996.
7. M. Cappelletti and B. Garth, Access to Justice: A world survey (1978) vol. 1, 10.
8. See, further, Legal Action Group (LAG), A Strategy for Justice (1992) ch. 1.
9. Lord Chancellor, Summary of the Prososed New Service (1948; Cmd. 7563).
10. Lord Hailsham, H.L. Debs., 921 (18 March 1986).
11. Lord Chancellor's Dept., Judicial Statistics 1985 (1986; Cmnd. 9864) table 10.17, and Judicial Statistics 1995 (1996; Cm. 3290) table 10.7.
12. Lord Chancellor's Dept., Judicial Statistics 1985 (1986; Cmnd. 9864) table 10.17, and Judicial Statistics 1995 (1996; Cm. 3290) table 10.7.
13. See, further, LAG, op. cit., n. 8, ch. 2 and app. 1.
14. Legal Aid Board, Annual Report 1985-6 (1986) 47 and Annual Report 1995-6 (1996) 63.
15. Legal Aid Board, Annual Report 1985-6 (1986) 47 and Annual Report 1995-6 (1996) 63.
16. Law Society, Annual Statistical Report 1995 (1995) table 7.11.
17. R. Abel, The Legal Profession in England and Wales (1988) 116.
18. Lord Chancellor's Dept., op. cit., n. 1, para. A.3.
19. Scottish Office, Crime and Punishment (1986) para. 6.30; R. Scott (chief executive of Scottish Legal Aid Board), speech, 21 June 1996).
20. Scottish Office, Crime and Punishment (1986) para. 6.30; R. Scott (chief executive of Scottish Legal Aid Board), speech, 21 June 1996).
21. Lord Chancellor's Dept., op. cit., n. 1, para. 5.8
22. id., para. 3.36.
23. Lord Chancellor's Dept., op. cit., n. 2, para. 6.26.
24. Legal Aid Board, Second Stage Consultation on the Future of the Green Form Scheme (1989) para. 16(iii).
25. Lord Chancellor's Dept., op. cit., n. 1, para. 3.18.
26. Law Society, op. cit., n. 14, p. 59.
27. 276 H.L. Debs. (written answers) 530 (1 May 1996).
28. Legal Aid Board, Annual Report 1994-95 (1995) 98.
29. General Council for the Bar, Strategies for the Future (1990) indicated that 27 per cent of the Bar's total turnover came from legal aid.
30. Legal Aid Board, Annual Report 1993-94 (1994), and 560 H.L. Debs. (written answer) 100 (30 January 1995).
31. Legal Aid Board, Annual Report 1993-94 (1994), and 560 H.L. Debs. (written answer) 100 (30 January 1995).
32. Lord Chancellor's Dept., op. cit., n. 1, p. 5.
33. id., para. 3.27.
34. id., para. 3.29.
35. J. Steele and G. Bull, Fast, Friendly and Expert? (1996) 148.
36. Lord Chancellor's Dept., op. cit., n. 1, para. 4.29.
37. id., para. 2.17.
38. id., paras. 2.1-2.6.