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Annual Reports: 1989-90 through 1998-99.

Annual Report 1997/98

The Code of Practice in Relation to Criminal Legal Assistance, April, 1998

The Recorder - Newsletter of the Scottish Legal Aid Board

[NEJL has Issues 1 through 27, from Winter 1988/99 through May 1999.]

Information Leaflets for the Public—

What Civil Legal Aid may cost you

What you an expect from the Scottish Legal Aid Board

How Legal Aid can help you if you have a civil dispute

How Legal Aid can help you if you have been charged with a criminal offence

Contracting for legal services with different cost rules

Gwyn Bevan, Paul Fenn and Neil Rickman

The Lord Chancellor’s Department

Research Programme

Research Series No.3/98

March, 1998

Published by The Stationery Office Limited

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Modernising Justice - The Government’s plans for reforming legal services and the courts

The Lord Chancellor’s Department

Published by The Stationary Office Limited

December, 1998

Access to Justice - Civil procedure rules about costs, solicitor’s fixed costs in civil claims

The Lord Chancellor’s Department

July, 1998

Justice at the Right Price - A consultaion paper on a costs regime for the fast track.

The Lord Chancellor’s Department

June, 1998

Access to Justice with Conditional Fees - A consulation paper

The Lord Chancellor’s Department

March, 1998

The Lord Chancellor’s Department

July, 1998

Legal Aid Delivery Systems: Which offer the best value for money in mass casework? - A summary of International experience

Tamara Goriely

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Research Programme

Research Series No.10/97

December 1997

ISBN 1 84099 0058

Robert Baldwin

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Research Programme

Research Series No.5/97

December 1997

ISBN 0 95033 987 3

Rationing and Cost - Containment in Legal Services

Robert Dingwall, Paul Fenn and Jackie Tuck

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Research Programme

Research Series No.1/98

March 1998

ISBN 1 84099 009 0

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The work of the Lord Chancellors Department [Community Legal Service - legal aid- graduated fees - Lord Chancellors dress code - dress in court - conditional fee agreements - contacting - judicial and magisterial appointments - judicial appointments commission - freemasonry - rights of audience - complaints against barristers and solicitors - Human Rights Act closures of magistrates courts - Court Service staff - freedom of information]: minutes of evidence, Tuesday 10 November 1998. [Lord Chancellors Department]

Report on the Clerk of the Parliaments reference regarding criminal legal aid taxation

Treasury minute on the 9th, 13th to 20th reports from the Committee of Public Accounts 1997-98:9th report - Property services in the English occupied Royal Palaces, responsibilities for Royal Household remuneration and the provision of accommodation; 13th report - Criminal legal aid means testing in the magistrates courts; 14th report - HM Customs and Excise, the seizure of drug traffickers assets; 15th report- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, sale of facilities service division; 16th report - Her Majestys Customs and Excise, appropriation account matters 1995-96; 17th report - Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust, progress in regenerating housing estates; 18th report - The Department of Trade and Industry redundancy payments service, the management and recovery of debt; 19th report - Overseas Development Administration, aid to Indonesia; 20th report - Motability

13th report [session 1997-98]:criminal legal aids means testing in the magistrates courts, together with the proceedings of the committee relating to the report, minutes of evidence, and an appendix.

The work of the Lord Chancellors Department [Lord Chancellors priorities - Community legal service - legal aid - conditional fees - contingency legal aid fund - recovery of costs against assisted persons-graduation and standard fees - Q. C.s - fixed-price contracting - Lord Woolfs civil justice reforms-appointment of judges and magistrates - freemasonry in the judiciary - immigration adjudicators - fine recovery - incorporation of European Convention on Human Rights - Law Commission reports.]:minutes of evidence, Monday 13 October 1997

Legal aid: annual report of the Law Society [of Northern Ireland] and of the Lord Chancellors Advisory Committee [on Legal Aid in Northern Ireland] 1995-96

Criminal legal aid means testing in the magistrates courts: minutes of evidence, Monday 17 February 1997

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6th report, session 1996-97: drawing special attention to the following, Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2558); Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland)Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2555);Education (School Information) (England) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2585); Jobseekers Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2657); Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (No.2) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2570):Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2632)

Criminal legal aid means testing in the magistrates courts