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The LSC was responsible for a budget of around £2 billion annually, and helping over 2 million people with their legal problems across England and Wales each year. It was established under the Access to Justice Act 1999 [1] and in 2000 replaced the Legal Aid Board (founded in 1988 by the Legal Aid Act 1988, its responsibility was previously held by the Law Society of England and Wales through ...
The Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It replaced the legal aid system in England and Wales.It created the Legal Services Commission, replacing the Legal Aid Board, and two new schemes: Community Legal Service to fund civil and family cases, and the Criminal Defence Service for criminal cases. [1]
The agency was formed on 1 April 2013 as a replacement for the Legal Services Commission, which unlike the Legal Aid Agency, was a non-departmental public body of the MoJ. This change was enacted by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 to allow for greater ministerial control over the UK government's legal aid budget.
The Legal Services Board is an oversight regulator, and sits at the top of the regulatory system for legal services in England and Wales. It provides regulatory oversight of the eight ‘’approved regulators’’ named in the Legal Services Act of 2007 (LSA 2007), and two additional regulators added since the act gained Royal Assent.
The legal services sector of the United Kingdom is a significant part of the national economy; it had a total output of £22.6 billion in 2013, up from 10.6 billion in 2001, and is equivalent to 1.6% of the country's gross domestic product for that year. [1]
Community Legal Advice is a government-funded advice service in the United Kingdom set up by the Legal Services Commission as part of the Community Legal Service. It aims to help people in England and Wales deal with civil legal problems, and is part of the legal aid programme in those nations.
The Legal Services Act 2007 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that seeks to liberalise and regulate the market for legal services in England and Wales, to encourage more competition and to provide a new route for consumer complaints. [4] It also makes provisions about the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007.
The Legal Services Research Centre (LSRC) operated as the independently managed research division of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) for England and Wales from 2000, having initially been established as the Legal Aid Board Research Unit (LABRU) in 1996. The LSRC was an internationally recognised and influential leader in the field of access ...