{"id":72931,"date":"2016-08-02T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7c64284b7162d38003d5a980730193ec"},"modified":"2016-08-02T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T14:00:17","slug":"news-story-civil-news-contract-termination-for-public-interest-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72931","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: contract termination for Public Interest Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We have terminated our contract with Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) as we consider the firm has breached its contractual requirements.<\/p>\n<p>We have taken this action after a thorough review of information provided by PIL, following the investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) into the firm.<\/p>\n<p>SRA has asked the Solicitors\u2019 Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) to consider allegations against the firm.<\/p>\n<p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has no role in judging the issues of professional conduct  involved in the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>However, we are clear that contractual breaches with LAA\u2019s contract are proven and warrant investigation by the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>LAA will carefully consider any application to transfer representation to a new firm in accordance with the relevant criteria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Aid Agency finds Public interest Lawyers in breach of contract.<\/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\/72931"}],"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=72931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}