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February 2018 Posts

Legal profession wants properly funded legal aid system following AGFS fee reform

Posted: 28 February 2018

Following a wide-reaching consultation on how to base criminal advocates’ pay on the seriousness and complexity of their work, the Ministry of Justice has revealed that it has mostly stuck to its plans to reform the Advocates Graduated Fee Scheme ...

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Government may consider clinical negligence damages in cost cutting review

Posted: 14 February 2018

In a speech to the House of Lords earlier this month, health minister Lord James O’Shaughnessy revealed that a cross-government strategy tackling the spiralling costs of clinical negligence claims in the UK would be published in September, and could see ...

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