Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No.2) Order 2011
This order, amongst other things, reduces the Legal Aid rates for mental health law (and other civil work) by 10%: the old and new fees are set out in Legal Aid#Payments. It also introduces maximum payments for experts: for instance, psychiatrists (£90 London, £135 non-London) and psychologists (£90 London, £117 non-London). In force 3/10/11 (for cases started on or after that date).
Related legislation
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2011 — Summary of the Bill: 'To make provision about legal aid; to make further provision about funding legal services; to make provision about costs and other amounts awarded in civil and criminal proceedings; to make provision about sentencing offenders, including provision about release on licence or otherwise; to make provision about bail and about remand otherwise than on bail; to make provision about the employment, payment and transfer of persons detained in prisons and other institutions; to make provision about penalty notices for disorderly behaviour and cautions; and to create new offences of threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises.' Enacted as Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
- Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No.2) Order 2011
External links
- Hansard HL Deb, 26 October 2011, col 831. This is the transcript of a debate in the House of Lords on a motion to annul the Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No.2) Order 2011 (the order which reduces civil fee rates by 10%); following the debate the motion was withdrawn.
- LSC, 'Legal Aid Reform - Civil Legal Aid Experts' Fees' (9/11/11) - related to CLS News item dated 27/10/11
Full text: Legislation.gov.uk
Type: UK Statutory Instrument🔍
Year: 2011🔍
Number: 2066
Subject: Legal Aid legislation🔍
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