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Legal Aid and Civil Cost Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

518 c659-72 

Session

2010-12

Department

Ministry of Justice

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Geoffrey Robinson | 518 c669 (Link to this contribution) The Lord Chancellor will be aware that there is widespread understanding of his statement throughout...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c670 (Link to this contribution) I realise that we have had such problems. The LSC's accounting has been criticised and its performan...

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Tom Brake | 518 c669 (Link to this contribution) Following the question of the Chairman of the Justice Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c669 (Link to this contribution) I have been considering this issue with colleagues and I shall continue to do so because we are conc...

Chris Leslie | 518 c670 (Link to this contribution) Will the Justice Secretary try to estimate the impact of the proposals on the very poorest in societ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c670 (Link to this contribution) I realise the need for such services and I know that citizens advice bureaux are a particularly valu...

David Burrowes | 518 c670 (Link to this contribution) First, I declare an interest as a legal aid lawyer. Given your earlier comments, Mr Speaker, I hope ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c670 (Link to this contribution) I hope to, but I hesitate to claim that we are providing greater access to justice given that we are...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c671 (Link to this contribution) Not normally, unless in an exceptional case we are under a legal obligation to provide legal aid. Ed...

Guy Opperman | 518 c671 (Link to this contribution) Given the restrictions that will apply in relation to education funding, can we be clear that there ...

Keith Vaz | 518 c667 (Link to this contribution) The last Government, of course, also cut legal aid. The issue is quality, and how we focus that lega...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c667 (Link to this contribution) The last Government made many changes to legal aid, which stopped the increase in spending throughou...

Nick de Bois | 518 c667 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the continuing support for asylum cases under legal aid, but I welcome even more the curbs...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c668 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we certainly intend to confine legal aid in immigration cases to those where detention or liber...

Karen Buck | 518 c668 (Link to this contribution) Legal aid plays a vital function in creating a level playing field between the powerful and the powe...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c668 (Link to this contribution) Serious issues arise for parents in educational cases, and, obviously, the interests of the children...

David Nuttall | 518 c668 (Link to this contribution) One group of people my constituents in Bury North would like to see excluded from the scope of crimi...

Gerald Kaufman | 518 c669 (Link to this contribution) Taking into account the Lord Chancellor's wish, stated this afternoon, to encourage more efficient r...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c668 (Link to this contribution) Considerable adverse comment was made about the unfortunate case of our recent colleagues who succee...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c669 (Link to this contribution) I will inquire into the case that concerns the right hon. Gentleman, but I must point out that the L...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c665 (Link to this contribution) In some cases, as with housing issues where a person's home is at risk and they may lose possession,...

Jack Straw | 518 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) May I endorse what my right hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Sadiq Khan) said in every particular...

Lord Beith | 518 c665 (Link to this contribution) The Justice Committee will look forward to an early session with the Lord Chancellor on the details ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c664-5 (Link to this contribution) Mr Speaker, if I may, let me first respond to your comments. When I finalised the statement before c...

Jack Straw | 518 c665 (Link to this contribution) Or criminals.

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c667 (Link to this contribution) At present, about half the total number of clinical negligence cases are brought on a no win, no fee...

Robert Halfon | 518 c667 (Link to this contribution) Following the decision to remove legal aid from clinical negligence cases, how will my right hon. an...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) We are working on incentives to stop them from being paid by the word outside the House, Mr Speaker....

Speaker | 518 c666 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have also been hanging on almost every word spoken by the right hon. Member for Blackburn (...

Lord Khan of Tooting | 518 c662-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Lord Chancellor for giving me advance sight of his statement, and I note his ap...

Speaker | 518 c662 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have been hanging on almost every word of the right hon. and learned Gentleman for at least...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c659-62 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to announce today proposals for the reform of legal aid in Engla...

Simon Hughes | 518 c671 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge the rational and very thoughtful way in which the Secretary of State has approached th...

Gareth Johnson | 518 c672 (Link to this contribution) As a practising solicitor, I welcome this long-overdue full review of the legal aid system. Will my ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c672 (Link to this contribution) That question was asked more frequently many years ago. The exclusive rights of audience in the high...

David Mowat | 518 c672 (Link to this contribution) Has consideration been given in this review to the further savings that may be achieved by addressin...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the thoughts that underlie the hon. Gentleman's intervention. Let me make it clear that...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 518 c672 (Link to this contribution) Yes is the best and most straightforward answer to that. My hon. Friend underlines an absolutely fun...

Subjects

Criminal proceedings Costs Civil proceedings Fees and charges Legal aid scheme Divorce Insurance Legal costs Family law NHS Negligence Reform Conditional fee agreements Cuts Mediation

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