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The affordability of legal proceedings for those excluded from eligibility for criminal legal aid
report
posted on 2019-03-07, 09:42 authored by Donald HirschThis 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 SocietyVersion
- 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
2018Notes
This is an official report.Publisher version
Language
- en