1. Overview of Legal Aid Reform
Whether the old legal aid system achieved this has been the subject of endless debates and has indeed provided the basis and impetus for the Lord Chancellor, who is responsible for legal services, to come up with a White Paper entitled 'Modernizing Justice', which led to the passing of the Access to Justice Act (AJA) 1999. This Act replaced the framework for legal aid and established by its predecessor, the Legal Aid Act 1988. ... Essentially, unlike the old system, the AJA 1999 provided for two new schemes. ... Carter's fundamental proposal is to move away from the present ...
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