{"id":1010,"date":"2011-07-31T20:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T19:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2011-07-31T20:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T19:04:50","slug":"october-2011-legal-aid-fees-cut-consultation-on-the-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/2011\/07\/october-2011-legal-aid-fees-cut-consultation-on-the-order\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2011 Legal Aid fees cut &#8211; consultation on the Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 July, the Ministry of Justice published the draft \u201cCommunity Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No.2) Order 2011. The Law Society and Bar Council have been invited to respond by <strong>10 August<\/strong>. HLPA has the opportunity to feed into this process. This order is intended to implement the 10% fee cut in legal aid rates, codify barristers&#8217; fees and reduce them by 10%, and set experts&#8217; fees at a very low level.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Latham has prepared a paper outlining the current proposals, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/HLPA-10%-Fee-Reduction-22.7.11.doc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The draft order is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Civil-Funding-Order-Consultation-copy.doc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The MoJ letter setting out the basis of the consultation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Funding-Orders-Consultation-Letter-July-2011.doc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Members please send any views or responses to Robert at\u00a0r.latham@doughtystreet.co.uk , as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 July, the Ministry of Justice published the draft \u201cCommunity Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No.2) Order 2011. The Law Society and Bar Council have been invited to respond by <strong>10 August<\/strong>. HLPA has the opportunity to feed into this process. This order is intended to implement the 10% fee cut in legal aid rates, codify barristers&#8217; fees and reduce them by 10%, and set experts&#8217; fees at a very low level.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Latham has prepared a paper outlining the current proposals, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/HLPA-10%-Fee-Reduction-22.7.11.doc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The draft order is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Civil-Funding-Order-Consultation-copy.doc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The MoJ letter setting out the basis of the consultation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Funding-Orders-Consultation-Letter-July-2011.doc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Members <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/2011\/07\/october-2011-legal-aid-fees-cut-consultation-on-the-order\/\">[... read more]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}