{"id":359,"date":"2006-11-21T20:08:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T20:08:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-11-21T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T20:08:33","slug":"crimeline-reports-worrying-loss-of-work-for-solicitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"CrimeLine reports worrying loss of work for solicitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=left>The Legal Services Commission has issued figures for the grant of representation post 2 October 2006, when means testing began. Jim Meyer, who has analysed the figures states <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=center>&#8220;&#8230;<font face=Arial size=2>in effect (and extrapolating the figures over a period of a year), there has been a 24% reduction in the number of applications for a representation order.&nbsp; If 17.48% of all applications are failing based on means, solicitors are basically experiencing a total reduction of 42% of representation orders being granted.&nbsp; This takes no account of those applications failing the IOJ test, which&nbsp;is estimated to be 5% (so the reduction may be as much as 47%).&nbsp;&#8220;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=center><font face=Arial color=#00008b size=3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/m1e.net\/c?39279824-1.E2eyQrjBSPE%402066747-2QL5c3.jTooGU\">click here for full figures<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=center>(c) Andrew Keogh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legal Services Commission has issued figures for the grant of representation post 2 October 2006, when means testing began. Jim Meyer, who has analysed the figures states &#8220;&#8230;in effect (and extrapolating the figures over a period of a year), there has been a 24% reduction in the number of applications for a representation order.&nbsp; [&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-359","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\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}