Criminal legal aid rates
Scottish Legal News and Irish Legal News cover our position on the rates rise being offered to criminal legal aid solicitors by the Ministry of Justice.
Law Society President Lubna Shuja said: “If we can see that there is an area of work that is just not sustainable and not viable, we’ve got a duty to tell our members that.
“That’s what we’re here for, the Law Society, we are here to represent, promote, support over 200,000 solicitors, and we have to do that for all of them. So, if we can see that a particular area is not sustainable we’ve got to tell our members that and they will vote with their feet, as they are doing.
“That’s their answer, they’re just saying: ‘I can’t afford to do this work any more: it’s not viable, it’s not sustainable. I can’t live on these kinds of rates. I’m leaving and I’m going to do something else.’ And that is a real issue because the long-term consequences of that is we’re not going to have a criminal justice system.”
In Conversation with the Law Society President
India Education Diary reports that Birmingham-based Aston Law School will be hosting an ‘In Conversation’ event with Law Society President Lubna Shuja, Inez Brown and Tony McDaid.
Cost of living crisis and preparing a will
Law News examines why preparing your own will can be a false economy and other factors for the public to consider.
It cites our guidance that having a solicitor prepare a will can mean common mistakes can be avoided that could make a will invalid.
Also worth a read:
- Rishi Sunak to meet King Charles – BBC News (Live)
- Brexit: 2,400 laws could disappear overnight – Guardian
- CLC warns conveyancers of a property market crash – City A.M.
- Economic Crime Bill begins committee stage today – Gazette
- NHS says trans children going through ‘transient phase’ – Times (£)