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Steve Hynes is a freelance consultant and writer. He was previously director of LAG. He is a well-known commentator in the written and broadcast media on legal aid and access to justice issues.
Steve Hynes discusses the LASPO Part 1 review report and what it has to say about fee cuts, the falling numbers of legal aid suppliers and the...
Steve Hynes discusses the main points in the report of the post-implementation review of Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of...
Legal Support: The Way Ahead, part of the government’s post-legislative review of LASPO, is rather short on any action.
The First International Forum on Online Courts: ‘The cutting edge of digital reform’ was jointly hosted by the Society for Computers and...
The current proposal, in all probability, is going to flounder.
The coalition government knew that it would be the poorest and most vulnerable who would be hit hardest by LASPO. It went ahead regardless.
As is well documented in some areas of law, the firms and not-for-profit agencies providing legal aid are too thinly spread for potential clients to...
It remains to be seen whether or not the government will decide to appeal the High Court’s judgment in the Law Society’s judicial review...
The government needs to heed the findings of the Taylor review, which called for new legislation to provide a clearer statement of the tests to...
In a surprise announcement, the Legal Aid Agency has reopened tenders for the main civil legal aid face-to-face contracts.