Article: Consultations launched on payment of Crown Court defence costs.

Article: Middle earners lose out in legal aid cuts; An end ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... No means test will apply to legal aid in Crown Court cases - the criteria will remain ... will in practice always assure legal aid for crown court defendants. For cases going to crown court, legal aid will also cover their defence ...

Article: Legal eagles keep their counsel over the high price of justice; ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 30, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... lobby of the Birmingham Crown Court who decided a minor ... Perhaps they don't have legal aid outside Birmingham ... hearing the level of legal aid fees paid to leading ... Barristers get a standard crown court legal aid rate of pounds 221 ...

Article: Legal aid review to ensure value for money.
M2 Presswire;  June 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Scotland said: "Criminal and civil legal aid are central to the Government ... government has increased spending on legal aid year on year for the past five ... for a significant proportion of Crown Court legal aid expenditure. Up until now, it ...

Article: Legal aid bill 'will top u1.7bn as QCs cash in'.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 15, 2003 ;     529 words ... ... pockets of Queen's Counsel who work in the Crown Court system. Spokesman Angus Andrew said: 'The fact that one per cent of Crown Court cases accounts for 49 per cent of Crown Court legal aid expenditure seems wholly disproportionate ...

Article: New regulations tighten criteria for use of QC's and more than ...
M2 Presswire;  September 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... advocate in the Crown Court (C)1994-2000 ... one advocate in Crown Court cases. The Government ... ensures that criminal legal aid resources are spent ... advocate in the Crown Court is governed by regulation 48 of the Legal Aid in Criminal and ...

Article: LETTER:Legal aid fees and proposed reforms for the ...
The Independent - London;  May 20, 1995 ;     682 words ... ... article have nothing to do with legal aid. The facts are these: lawyers' fees in criminal legal aid cases are controlled both by the ... not set out their own fees for legal-aid Crown Court work. They are paid what the ...

Article: Pay up or do more time, conman in pounds 2.25m legal ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 25, 2000 ;     543 words ... ... in the country's biggest legal aid fraud has been ordered to ... two others at Birmingham Crown Court of conspiring to defraud the Legal Aid Board of pounds 2.25 million ... confiscation hearing at Birmingham Crown Court this week heard that Lane ...