Recommendation 23

Written evidence we received from organisations including the Law Society, Public Law Project and Law Centres Network all raised concerns about whether the actions MoJ has taken to date were sufficient or fast enough to tackle long-term sustainability issues.44 For example, the Law Society stressed that for civil legal aid, there is no mechanism to ensure regular fee reviews going forward, no timetable for the implementation of housing and immigration fees and no commitment for increases to other areas of civil legal aid which are in urgent need of investment. Regarding criminal legal aid fees, it stated that it has been two years since MoJ committed to restructuring the Litigators’ Graduated Fee Scheme (LFGS) through the CLAAB but that no viable scheme has been proposed as MoJ has stated it does not have the required data.45 Cyberattack response