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The affordability of legal proceedings for those excluded from eligibility for criminal legal aid

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posted on 2019-03-07, 09:42 authored by Donald Hirsch
This report considers whether people defending criminal proceedings in Magistrates’ Courts and the Crown Court who are required by the criminal legal aid system to contribute to or pay fully for legal costs, based on their income, can always afford to do so while maintaining a minimum acceptable living standard. This standard is based on my research into what members of the public consider such a minimum to be – the Minimum Income Standard. The report also considers whether legal costs can be afforded without a defendant and their household falling into poverty as commonly measured......

Funding

The Law Society

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Citation

HIRSCH, D., 2018. The affordability of legal proceedings for those excluded from eligibility for criminal legal aid. London: The Law Society.

Publisher

The Law Society

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2018

Notes

This is an official report.

Language

  • en