New legal aid court challenge set to proceed – Law Society’s Gazette
“A High Court judge has refused an injunction that could have further delayed the start of the new mental health and public law legal aid contracts – but awarded a protective costs order to enable a...
View ArticleLaw firms win judicial review case against LSC – The Lawyer
“Two law firms, Public Interest Lawyers and RMNJ, have successfully fought a judicial review case against the Legal Services Commission (LSC).” Full story The Lawyer, 20th December 2010 Source:...
View ArticleRisk Management Partners Ltd v Brent London Borough Council and another – WLR...
Risk Management Partners Ltd v Brent London Borough Council and another [2011] UKSC 7; [ 2011] WLR (D) 42 “A group of local authorities who awarded insurance contracts to a mutual insurance company...
View ArticleStrong Segurança SA v Município de Sintra and another – WLR Daily
Strong Segurança SA v Município de Sintra and another (Case C-95/10); [2011] WLR (D) 99 “Article 47(2) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/18/EC (permitting an economic operator participating in a...
View ArticleLaw firms ally with chambers to bid for criminal contract – Law Society’s...
“Fifteen law firms in south Wales are to form an alliance with a set of chambers to bid for a criminal legal aid contract from the Legal Services Commission in the next contract round.” Full story Law...
View ArticleCriminal lawyers will shudder at plans to introduce competition to legal aid...
“Tucked away on page 52 of the government’s response to the legal aid green paper were words that would make many criminal lawyers shudder: ‘We intend to consult on detailed proposals for introducing...
View ArticleLSC publishes plan for interim family contracts – Law Society’s Gazette
“The Legal Services Commission has published a plan for the tender process for new interim family contracts to start in February 2012.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 8th July 2011 Source:...
View ArticleMet demands cut-price rates as scandal hots up – The Lawyer
“Legal advisers have been stunned by the Metropolitan Police requesting rock-bottom hourly rates in its latest panel review, at a time when it faces an increasing chance of court action over its...
View ArticleBar Conference 2011: barristers ‘ready to strike’ over tendering plan – Law...
“Criminal barristers will take ‘direct action’ – including withdrawing their services – if the government presses ahead with its plans for price-competitive tendering, the chair of the Criminal Bar...
View ArticleSAG ELV Slovensko as and others v Úrad pre verejné obstarávanie, (Národná...
SAG ELV Slovensko as and others v Úrad pre verejné obstarávanie, (Národná dial’ničná spoločnost’ as intervening) (Case C-599/10); [2012] WLR (D) 103 “A member state was required to make legislative...
View ArticleIf it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – The Bar Council
“A tribute to outgoing Law Society President, John Wotton; a welcome to his successor, Lucy Scott‐Moncrieff, defender of the High Street law firm; examining the aims of Price Competitive Tendering and...
View ArticleJudicial Review by Third Parties – 11 KBW
Judicial Review by Third Parties (PDF) 11 KBW, 16th November 2012 Source: www.11kbw.com
View ArticleConfidential bid information could be disclosed under FOI laws, rules...
“Public sector bodies cannot guarantee the confidentiality of bid information in the aftermath of an Information Rights Tribunal ruling, an expert has said.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 27th November 2012...
View ArticleEconord SpA v Comune di Cagno and others – WLR Daily
Econord SpA v Comune di Cagno and others (Joined Cases C-182/11 and C-183/11); [2012] WLR (D) 356 “The condition established by the case law of the Court of Justice European Union (Teckal Srl v Comune...
View ArticleNo consultation on principle of criminal legal aid tendering – LAG News Blog
“It was clear from the meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid yesterday evening that there is a wide gulf between legal aid practitioners and the government on the issue of...
View ArticleOur justice system is being turned into Profit & Growth plc – The Guardian
“Under Chris Grayling’s plans, lawyers will become unit-shifters employed by large corporations.” Full story The Guardian, 1st April 2013 Source: www.guardian.co.uk
View ArticleMoJ unveils tendering plans for criminal defence – Law Society’s Gazette
“Defendants will lose the right to choose their lawyer and instead be allocated a representative, under government plans to introduce price-competitive tendering (PCT) for criminal defence services.”...
View ArticleThe CBA misunderstand and are misrepresenting QASA warns the BSB – Bar...
“Yesterday’s Criminal Bar Association message contains some unhelpful inaccuracies which the Bar Standards Board needs to correct.” Full story Bar Standards Board, 9th April 2013 Source:...
View ArticleTransforming legal aid: a guide to defence tendering – LegalVoice
“A guide to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on criminal legal aid reform (Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system) and price competitive tendering published...
View ArticleRevealed: Grayling’s plan to drive a wedge between bar and solicitors – Law...
“Justice secretary Chris Grayling has sought to drive a wedge between solicitors and barristers over the drastic plans to cut criminal legal aid and restructure the market, the Gazette has learned.”...
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