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LSC Update
Solicitors News Advocates News
03/09/2009
Issue 58
Civil Crime Cross Cutting Civil Crime Cross Cutting
News Roundup
Solicitors
Civil

Best practice guide on care proceedings

Improving your Quality - housing

CLA extends telephone advice to family problems

Working with National Centre for Domestic Violence

Crime

Engage with… Crown Court Means Testing

Crown Court Litigator Fee System Update

Cross Cutting
Domestic abuse research and ethnic minorities

Single Equality Scheme hits targets

London Region legal aid applications



Advocates
Civil

Improving your Quality - housing

CLA extends telephone advice to family problems

Working with National Centre for Domestic Violence

Crime

Engage with… Crown Court Means Testing

Crown Court Litigator Fee System Update

Cross Cutting

Domestic abuse research and ethnic minorities

Single Equality Scheme hits targets

London Region legal aid applications

 
 
News Headlines
Best practice guide on care proceedings

A guide has been issued for all professionals involved in care proceedings. It gives practical advice on the various stages that need to be undertaken pre-proceedings.

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Improving your Quality – housing
A new housing guide is available in the ‘Improving your Quality’ series. The guide contains material directly related to the quality of legal advice and service given to clients.
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CLA telephone advice covers family problems
Following a successful pilot the CLA is now offering telephone advice abour family problems.
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Engage with... Crown Court Means Testing
Crown Court Means Testing 'engage events' to discuss the detail of proposed business processes with litigators and advocates will be running next week in Norwich, Swansea and Bradford. Today (Thursday) we are in Derby…
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Crown Court Litigator Fee System Update
Changes to the Litigator Graduated Fee Scheme mean that the Crown Court Litigator Fee (CCLF) online system has been updated. BACS statements have been amended to reflect case information to allow providers to reconcile payments.
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Domestic abuse research and ethnic minorities
Research into the barriers faced by survivors of domestic abuse  from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds (BAME) shows that they are less likely to seek help from statutory services…
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    Single Equality Scheme hits targets
    A three-year action plan for the LSC to deliver equality and diversity objectives is well on the road to success with 30 out of 65 actions completed already.
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