{"id":60101,"date":"2015-08-06T14:04:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f8b2bb3f102241f0ba1b522058d27747"},"modified":"2015-08-06T14:04:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:04:01","slug":"news-story-crime-news-client-service-for-crown-court-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60101","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: client service for Crown Court cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) is creating a telephone service to provide information for legal aid clients seeking litigation services (legal representation) for Crown Court cases.  <\/p>\n<p>The service will offer clients details on possible options to obtain representation.  <\/p>\n<h4 id=\"ensuring-clients-have-access-to-legal-representation\">Ensuring clients have access to legal representation<\/h4>\n<p>The LAA takes seriously its responsibilities to provide access to legal representation for those charged with criminal offences who qualify for legal aid. <\/p>\n<p>We also expect criminal legal aid providers to meet their professional requirements and contractual responsibilities.  <\/p>\n<p>In relation to any providers who decide not to represent a defendant in the Crown Court, we expect them to: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>continue to act in the best interests of their client<\/li>\n<li>inform them of other options, including this telephone service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"telephone-service-details\">Telephone service details<\/h3>\n<p>The service starts on Monday 10 August 2015 \u2013 details below.  <\/p>\n<p>The number will also be made available to the courts to help them assist any unrepresented defendants.<\/p>\n<p>Further firms who wish to make their services available through the new phone line can continue to contact LAA through their contract manager.<\/p>\n<p>The phone service will not replace or replicate the work done by the Duty Solicitor Call Centre and does not affect the allocation of duty work in any way.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Telephone service: 0333 003 7060 (9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telephone service helps legal aid clients with Crown Court cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}