Legal Aid Scheme: Solicitors
(asked on 10th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the reform of legal aid on average annual earnings of legal aid solicitors.
This question was answered on 15th July 2019
On 7 February 2019, the Government published the Post Implementation Review (PIR) of Part 1 of The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/post-implementation-review-of-part-1-of-laspo
The review did not look at the earnings of individual solicitors, but reported instead on the impact on legal aid providers, including solicitors firms and individual barristers.