{"id":66982,"date":"2016-01-28T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2f8132411717a16bc67b8e07c868607d"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:33:45","slug":"news-story-crime-news-changes-to-criminal-legal-aid-contracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66982","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: changes to criminal legal aid contracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Lord Chancellor has made a written ministerial statement to Parliament setting out a change in policy with regard to criminal legal aid contracting.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) will discontinue the procurement process for 2015 Duty Provider Crime Contracts and 2015 Own Client Contracts (including Prison Law and Appeals and Reviews work).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"contract-extension\">Contract extension<\/h3>\n<p>LAA had secured provision of services for  work between 11 January and 31 March 2016 under a contingency extension to the 2010 Standard Crime Contract.<\/p>\n<p>We will take steps to extend existing contingency contracts to ensure continuity of service until replacement contracting arrangements are procured and implemented.<\/p>\n<p>LAA will write to all organisations affected to set out what this means for them.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"fees\">Fees<\/h3>\n<p>The Lord Chancellor has also announced that, from 1 April 2016 until 1 April 2017, there will be a suspension of the litigator fee cut that was implemented in July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The new fee scheme, previously planned for April 2016, will no longer be implemented.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/changes-to-criminal-legal-aid-contracting\">Changes to criminal legal aid contracting<\/a> &#8211; Written statement to Parliament<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/legal-aid-crime-tender-2015\">Crime tender 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update on the provision of criminal legal aid services.<\/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\/66982"}],"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=66982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}