Ministry Of Justice
About the Review
The Ministry of Justice is undertaking a Review of Civil Legal Aid.
The Review is considering the civil legal aid system in its entirety, from how services are procured, how well the current system works for users and providers, and how civil legal aid impacts the wider justice system.
To support policy development, the Review will include 4 analytical workstreams to adopt a comprehensive data-gathering approach:
- Economic analysis of the structure of the civil legal aid market
- Comparative analysis of systems in other countries
- A series of data publications
- Social research of user journeys
The Review of Civil Legal Aid will publish reports for all workstreams, releasing evidence papers on this website ahead of the projects conclusion on 31 March 2024.
Once complete, the government can consider options from the Review for shaping a more effective, efficient, and sustainable system for legal aid providers and the people who rely on legal aid.
Terms of Reference
Further information on the purpose, outcomes and scope of the Review as a whole can be found in the .
Information on the Economic Analysis can be found in the .
Last updated 7 August 2023 +show all updates
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Overarching Terms of Reference published.
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