A ballot has confirmed that action will be escalated over the government's refusal to meet legal aid demands.
Back in April, barristers decided they would not take on returned cases after the government refused to increase their fees by 25 per cent.
They were balloted on...
The government aims to increase criminal legal aid fees by the end of September.
It is hoping to lay secondary legislation following a Ministry of Justice consultation on a £135 million reform package.
So far there have been more than 200 responses and if feedback continues...
More than £36 million was spent on management consultants by the Ministry of Justice in the last three years.
The top spend includes almost £6 million on the HM Courts and Tribunal Service’s reform programme and more than £16 million in relation to the MoJ...
Sir Christopher Bellamy QC has been made the Parliamentary Under the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice.
The 76-year-old, who penned the report urging the MoJ to increase legal aid spending, can now sit in the House of Lords to represent the government...
A trial has been started by The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (known as Cafcass) in a bid to improve procedures involving parents’ separation.
Alongside the Ministry of Justice, the trial, being run in Dorset, aims to help families make new arrangements...
Solicitors will snub low-paid work in response to the government’s criminal legal aid reforms.
After voting to join the criminal bar in protest action, many London practitioners have said they will decline some work, beginning with burglary cases from May 25.
The Lord chief justice has...
