{"id":816,"date":"2009-02-20T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T09:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2009-02-20T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T09:09:30","slug":"legal-aid-cuts-for-family-cases-legal-aid-rises-for-prison-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Legal aid cuts for family cases, legal aid rises for prison inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-817\" style=\"width:115px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/1p_coin.jpg\" alt=\"1p_coin\" width=\"115\" height=\"116\" \/>\r\n\t<div>1p_coin<\/div>\r\n<\/div>It has been reported this month that to save \u00a36.5million of legal aid the government plans to cut barristers\u2019 fees for legally aided family disputes by up to \u00a3150 a case.   The cuts would affect cases involving contact with children or where a child lives after a divorce, as well as disputes between couples over money.  The total legal aid budget is \u00a32 billion-a-year.<br \/>\nTimes report <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/law\/article5748111.ece\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month it was revealed that \u00a319 million of public funds was spent on legal services for prison inmates last year, compared to just \u00a31 million in 2001\/02.<br \/>\nThe Legal Services Commission, which operates legal aid, blamed rises in legal advice and assistance for inmates, such as over human rights challenges and legal support for prisoners in adjudication hearings such as disciplinary action for those caught with drugs or mobile phones.<br \/>\nTelegraph report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/lawandorder\/4581751\/Legal-aid-for-prisoners-increases-20-fold.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1p_coin It has been reported this month that to save \u00a36.5million of legal aid the government plans to cut barristers\u2019 fees for legally aided family disputes by up to \u00a3150 a case. The cuts would affect cases involving contact with children or where a child lives after a divorce, as well as disputes between couples [&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-816","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\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}