Consultation outcome

Supporting the introduction of the single Family Court – Proposed changes to Family legal aid remuneration schemes

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 28 October 2013
• Last updated: 31 January 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Supporting the introduction of the single Family Court – Changes to the family legal aid remuneration schemes

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Supporting the introduction of the single Family Court – Changes to the family legal aid remuneration schemes - Welsh version

PDF, 190KB, 28 pages

Detail of outcome

The Government consulted on a proposal to change the current family legal aid fee payment schemes in October 2013. These changes are necessary to ensure an effective mechanism is in place that enables payment to be made for the provision of family legal aid services when the new family court comes into effect later this year.

This document reflects the responses that we have received to the consultation and describes how the Government intends to proceed.

The Government received 12 responses to its consultation, the majority of which were from representative bodies or providers of family legal aid services.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation sets out the Government’s proposals for amendments to the current family legal aid remuneration schemes in England and Wales, which are required as a result of the planned introduction of the new single Family Court (FC).

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
28 October 2013 to 11:45pm on 25 November 2013

Consultation description

We anticipate that the proposals set out in this consultation would, if implemented as proposed, have no impact on legal aid recipients and no or minimal impact on provider income or the legal aid fund.

Published 28 October 2013
Last updated 31 January 2014 + show all updates

1. 31 January 2014

   Welsh version of the consultation response added

2. 30 January 2014

   Outcome now published.

3. 28 October 2013

   First published.