Funding and Costs of Legal Aid in UK Law

  • The 'Exceptionality' of Legal Aid: Affordable Access to Justice in Judicial Review
    • No. 6-3, March 2021
    • LSE Law Review
    • Amy Elizabeth Hemsworth
    • University of Oxford, GB
    • 255-277
    This article discusses the role of costs as a limitation on access to judicial review in the UK. Part I assesses the series of financial hurdles to access currently faced by would-be judicial revie...
    ... ... ABSTRACT ... This article discusses the role of costs as a limitation on access to judicial review in the UK. Part I assesses ... at the impact of recent changes to the availability of legal aid funding. Part II argues that affordable access to justice in general is necessary ... ...
  • Alternatives to Public Provision: The Role of Legal Expenses Insurance in Broadening Access to Justice: The German Experience
    • No. 30-1, March 2003
    • Journal of Law and Society
    • 0000
    The literature suggests that the main barriers to justice range from a general lack of knowledge about legal rights, and the related prevalent use of technical language within justice systems (whic...
    ... ... funding legal services.5Empirical research indicates thatthe question of whether ... In broad terms, there arethree potential attitudes to legal costs: reliance on one’s ownresources; hope for third party assistance (such ... ...
  • Litigation funding: third-party funders come to the aid of finance directors seeking to reduce the risk of litigation and control the costs.
    • No. 2012, December 2012
    • Financial Management (UK)
    • Spiteri, Mark
    • Technical notes
    ... ... , insurance and banking sectors are well-publicised examples of litigious industries, and companies in these sectors often have large in-house legal teams and significant budgets dedicated towards the pursuit (and defence) of litigation. Claim sizes often run into tens of millions, and in some ... ...
  • The Swedish Legal Services Policy Remix: The Shift from Public Legal Aid to Private Legal Expense Insurance
    • No. 30-1, March 2003
    • Journal of Law and Society
    • 0000
    A number of governments in the 1960s and 1970s pursued the goal of equal access to legal services by establishing publicly funded legal aid schemes. Some societies also promoted Legal Expense Insur...
    ... ... of LEI in particular societies include D.Leipold, ‘Limiting costs for better access to justice: The German experience’ inReform of civil ... ,eligibility criteria were steadily tightened by introducing funding caps oncases and excluding more types of cases from legal aid coverage ... ...
  • The Contingency Legal Aid Fund: A Third Way to Finance Personal Injury Litigation
    • No. 30-1, March 2003
    • Journal of Law and Society
    • 0000
    Northern Ireland missed out on all the major reforms to civil justice which took place in England and Wales during the 1980s and 1990s. However the reform movement is now gathering pace and a Legal...
    ... ... many interested parties led to theconsideration of an alternative funding system, the Contingency LegalAid Fund (CLAF). The relative merits of CFAs ... , such as the potential benefit to be gainedfrom taking proceedings, costs relative to that benefit, and whether the case concernsa matter of public ... ...
  • The State of Australian Legal Aid
    • No. 29-1, March 2001
    • Federal Law Review
    • 0000
    ... ... Australian legal aid system has focussed on the declininglevels of funding and the consequent impact of this reduced funding. Little attentionhas ... , legal processes and referralto other community agencies for the costs of a local call anywhere within Queensland. TheCall Centre training ... ...
  • The Green Papers and Legal Services
    • No. 52-4, July 1989
    • The Modern Law Review
    • 0000
    ... ... audience rights will make little practical difference to divorce costs but the private litigant is particularly sensitive to the cost of employ- ... The CPS shares with legal aid a dependence on Govern- ment funding. In 1987-8 the CPS spent a total of E141m, of which f52m went to ... ...
  • The Government’s Plans on Legal Aid and Conditional Fees
    • No. 61-4, July 1998
    • The Modern Law Review
    • 0000
    ... ... This refers to cases not costs. In 1996–97, costs in 204,599 closed civil legal aid cases,excluding ... of people than those directly involved.58 Tojustify legal aid funding ‘a case would have to demonstrate the potential to producetangible ... ...
  • Holding aid-related misconduct accountable: civil and administrative remedies
    • No. 24-3, July 2021
    • Journal of Money Laundering Control
    • 596-606
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical analysis on aid-related misconduct and sectoral regulatory failures. Via a series of Oxfam revelations, this paper aims to highlight po...
    ... ... begins with an overviewof moral and legal responsibilities of the entrusted; then it ... spurred public sentiment to cut funding for the aid sector as a whole (Enria, ... associated with extradition (including high costs and specific requirementspertaining to crimes), ... ...
  • Holding aid-related misconduct accountable: civil and administrative remedies
    • No. 24-3, July 2021
    • Journal of Money Laundering Control
    • 0000
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical analysis on aid-related misconduct and sectoral regulatory failures. Via a series of Oxfam revelations, this paper aims to highlight po...
    ... ... begins with an overviewof moral and legal responsibilities of the entrusted; then it ... spurred public sentiment to cut funding for the aid sector as a whole (Enria, ... associated with extradition (including high costs and specific requirementspertaining to crimes), ... ...
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