In The Press
Government U-turn over immigration fee reform (Law Gazette) (12 August 2020)
Date: 12/08/2020
The Lord Chancellor is to revoke a controversial fixed fee regime for immigration and asylum appeals work after our public law team commenced judicial review proceedings. The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020, which came into force in June, introduced a £627 fixed fee. We served a letter before action on the Lord Chancellor challenging the lawfulness of the regulations and issued judicial review proceedings last month, outlining that the Lord Chancellor failed to consult lawfully before making the regulations and failed to gather the information reasonably required to make a proper decision. On 11th August it was announced that the Lord Chancellor will revoke the regulations.