Housing law news and comment
My grateful thanks to Free Movement for finding this, posting about it and passing it on. A Law Society letter of 2 April 2008 setting out the terms of the settlement of the Law Society’s litigation against the Legal Services Commission has been leaked. A PDF of the letter is here. Apparently, a ministerial statement has been laid before parliament.
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I haven’t posted about the Shelter staff dispute until now, partly because I was hoping it would be resolved and partly because I had little to add.
I have been prodded into posting by a comment by Mark P. As he observes, Shelter management are in the vanguard of the NfP sector in ‘ensuring competitiveness’ in the chase for future competitive bidding for LSC franchises. Shelter’s management rather disingenuously argue that as the frontline services are the major recipient of state funding, it is frontline services that should bear the brunt of the ‘efficiencies’ (link goes to a .doc, courtesy of Nik Nicol).
What Shelter are doing today will … Read the full post
Madeleine Bunting has an editorial in the Grauniad decrying the civil legal aid reforms, in particular for the effect on the Not for Profits, as well as the ‘paralegal in call centre’ approach.
Apparently Gateshead Law Centre went into receivership last week and Devon (Plymouth?) is on the brink.
As far as I recall, these are both examples of the ‘Not London’ areas that the LSC was insisting would actually see an increase in income from the £171 fixed fee Legal Help. Hmm.
Somehow, I suspect we’ll see more Law Centre closures before too long.… Read the full post
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