{"id":347,"date":"2006-10-14T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-10-14T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T09:53:07","slug":"delays-to-legal-aid-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Delays to legal aid reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lord Carter of Coles\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthform.info\/lawblog\/files\/lord_carter.jpg\" border=0>Changes to the \u00a32 billion-a-year legal aid scheme proposed in the <strong>Carter Review<\/strong> have run into mounting opposition from solicitors. The Lord Chancellor appears to be rethinking the introduction of fixed fees instead of hourly rates in family and civil legal aid cases. <\/p>\n<p>In any event the proposed market-based reforms may not now come in before 2008. <\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2403188,00.html\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the \u00a32 billion-a-year legal aid scheme proposed in the Carter Review have run into mounting opposition from solicitors. The Lord Chancellor appears to be rethinking the introduction of fixed fees instead of hourly rates in family and civil legal aid cases. In any event the proposed market-based reforms may not now come in [&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-347","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\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}