4PB are delighted to welcome Amean Elgadhy to the set
Leading family law chambers 4PB is pleased to announce that Amean Elgadhy, formerly of One Pump Court, has joined the set with immediate effect. Amean regularly acts in a range of significant cases often involving complex medical evidence, cross examination of children and vulnerable witnesses and historic allegations of sexual abuse. Complementary to the Court of […]
LSB 2023/24 Business Plan Published
The Legal Services Board (LSB) 2023/24 Business Plan has been published outlining its key objectives over the next 12 months; the third such plan the LSB have released since its “Reshaping Legal Services’ strategy was published in March 2021. “Reshaping Legal Services” has seen the introduction of more stringent measures on legal service providers to […]
Legal aid: ‘A decade of cuts’
It has been 10 years since the government took an “axe to legal aid” and justice is increasingly out of reach for those in most need, as evidenced by new maps from the Law Society of England and Wales showing expanding legal aid deserts. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) […]
10 years on: What is the impact of the virtual eradication of legal aid?
Reducing government spending on legal funding and discouraging “unnecessary” litigation – these were the main motivations of the coalition government of a decade ago when they introduced the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO), which came into force in April 2013. A 2018 report about the impact of LASPO, found that […]