1. Overview of Legal Aid Reform
The main advantages of the reforms may be summarized as follows: i) To give the taxpayer and indeed all prospective litigants better value for money; ii) To ensure a 'level playing field' between those who qualify for legal funding and those who don't; iii) To end the 'milking' of legal aid by unscrupulous practitioners; iv) To place the burden on solicitors who have the 'franchise' to justify the funding of individual cases; v) To require annual accounts to justify expenditure; vi) To provide free on-line advice to the public; vii) To encourage a litigant...
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