In The Press

Duncan Lewis Public law Director James Packer’s article features in the Freemovement blog on the 8th September 2015.

“As practitioners in the field will know well, in recent years the LAA has become ever more demanding where evidence of means is concerned. We consider that these demands have now become unreasonable, and have the appearance of attempts to find bases for refusal to pay rather than the safe-guarding of public monies. The LAA would do better to concentrate on the backlog of applications awaiting consideration, rather than seeking technical reasons not to pay a provider where it is clear the client in fact qualified for legal aid.”