{"id":199,"date":"2005-05-24T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-24T21:56:56","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T21:56:56","slug":"legal-aid-reforms-in-the-magistrates-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Legal aid reforms in the Magistrates&#8217; Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measures to reform legal aid in the magistrates&#8217; courts in order to bring costs under better control and provide better value for money for the taxpayer were published today. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Criminal Defence Service (CDS) Bill<\/strong> introduces a new means test for criminal cases in the magistrates&#8217; courts, so that those convicted of offences there should pay for their defence if they can afford it. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The measures should produce savings of about \u00a335 million a year, help redress the imbalance in the legal aid budget and make more funds available to be spent on civil cases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures to reform legal aid in the magistrates&#8217; courts in order to bring costs under better control and provide better value for money for the taxpayer were published today. The Criminal Defence Service (CDS) Bill introduces a new means test for criminal cases in the magistrates&#8217; courts, so that those convicted of offences there should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}