Services of Legal Aid in UK Law
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UK Public Procurement Law Digest: “Caveat Venditor” – e-tendering Systems and the Problem of Genuine Mistakes
Procurements run electronically seem to produce proportionately more claims of unfairness than the off-line variety. The cases that we summarise in this issue of our UK Public Procurement Law Diges...... ... If there were an award for Services to Procurement Law, the UKs Legal Services Commission (LSC) would be ... ...
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Legal Aid for EU Residents
... ... their effective access to justice where their financial resources are inadequate to cover the costs of litigation, and includes at least the services of a lawyer and the cost of proceedings" ... The provisions apply to natural persons (whether claimants or defendants) and to legal persons so ... ...
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'It's Legal Aid, Jim, But Not As We Know It.'
... ... has experience of working in France, where every partnership was allocated cases every year in which they are obliged to offer their services to the impecunious at 'legal aid rates'; it is not impossible to imagine a similar burden being placed upon our profession as a whole ... Many ... ...
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Criminal Assistance: Applying EU Public Procurement Rules To English Criminal Legal Aid
... Originally published in Competition Law Insight, July ... In December 2007, the Legal Services Commission (LSC) ... launched a consultation (the Consultation) intending to ... introduce best value tendering (BVT) for criminal defence ... ...
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Costs: Claimant Penalised For Change From Legal Aid Funding to CFA
... ... The Claimant's solicitor made a request for further funding ... when medical reports were being obtained. The Legal Services ... Commission (LSC) advised further funding could not be agreed but ... recommended making a formal request for funding ... The solicitor wrote to ... ...
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Commission Given Go-ahead On German Banks State Aid cases
... ... up its enforcement of the State aid rules in the financial services sector, looking in particular at the less obvious forms of aid such as the ... The content of this article does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied on as such. Specific advice should be ... ...
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Beyond Brexit: Preparing For Changes To The Treatment Of UK State Aid
... ... later in the year, this would present significant legal and ... practical challenges, and would involve agreement on a continuing ... mayerbrown.com ... Mayer Brown is a global legal services provider ... comprising legal practices that are separate entities (the ... ...
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From rule makers to rule takers? State Aid in the UK post-Brexit
On 14 November 2018, the European Commission and the UK government announced that they had agreed a draft Withdrawal Agreement. While this agreement still requires the consent of the UK Parliament ...... ... the "Notice" on the notion of aid, the "Communication" regarding services of general economic interest and the "Notice" on guarantees; ... (iii) ... aid control when the UK leaves the EU would mean there would be no legal framework to prevent subsidies that distort trade within the UK". Further ... ...
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Brexit: Implications for State Aid/Control of Subsidies
In a referendum on June 23, 2016, voters in the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. The UK government is currently expected to trigger the Article 50 process to formally exit the EU i...... ... prepared by WilmerHale’s Brexit team discussing the potential legal and regulatory implications ... of a future Brexit for the UK and ... for “services”) ... • Beyond WTO rules, the EU will continue to be able to ... ...
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Band Aid Solution
... ... These tax rulings are perfectly legal under the tax law of the respective member state. They were issued in the ... In both cases the companies concerned set prices for goods and services sold between companies within the Fiat and Starbucks groups (so-called ... ...
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