This is the best version of pot we could have. It did not call into question the existing professional self-regulation of organisations such as the Bar Association and the Bar Council. [7] The Commission recommended a review of the Court and court proceedings to determine whether the parties involved could save time and money. [8] In other respects, however, the report was groundbreaking – it recommended a Legal Services Council to advise the Lord Chancellor (which was eventually achieved by the Lord Chancellor`s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct), a movement of advisory services such as the Citizens` Advice Office into the legal fold, and a single unified body to regulate lawyers. rather than a fragmentation between the Bar Council and the Inns of Court. [9] The commission was chaired by Sir Henry Benson and also included a subcommittee on legal education, chaired by R.G. Dahrendorf. [2] May I also, Mr Spokesman, express my sincere thanks to Sir Henry Benson and his colleagues in the Commission? Recognizing the enormous amount of time allocated by the members of the commission, I hope that the government will take into account the problems associated with staffing future commissions in general. As far as legal aid is concerned, I would like to stress that I am entitled to legal aid. And learned friends agree that, although public expenditure obligations do not currently allow for the expansion of the system, it is time for the government to make a real commitment to providing legal aid to labour courts, etc. 1028 I would like to ask the Commissioner whether he is aware that the Commission has not yet presented a proposal for a directive on the protection of environmental protection. Is the Attorney General aware that lawyers in this chamber and elsewhere are suffering from a certain unpopularity? Is he aware that this is largely due to the feeling of so many people that the law and those who work in the legal profession do not meet the needs of ordinary people? Some of us have the unpleasant feeling that this report does not live up to those fears and that this feeling has not been mitigated by the postponement of the government`s decisions on the report. Can the Attorney General give an assurance that the government will pay particular attention to improving the availability of legal services to citizens in every way possible? 5.
For a discussion of how the Judicare model treats the provision of legal services to the poor, see Samuel J. Brakel, Prospects of Private Bar Involvement in Legal Services, 66 A.B.A.J. 726-28 (1980). In an earlier article, Brakel discusses the results of some of the earliest experiments with Judicare, which have almost always been established in rural parts of the country. Samuel J. Brakel, Judicare: Public Funds, Private Lawyers, and Poor People (Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1974). Google Scholar Since the Royal Commission probably looked at services in the U.K. in general, can we assume that all the guidelines resulting from the recommendations will be implemented nationally? Therefore, when making recommendations arising from this report or any other report with respect to lawyers who practise but refuse to join the various legal professions, will the Attorney General recommend punitive damages? With leave of the House, I would like to make a brief statement on the report of the Royal Commission on Legal Services. This report, the result of more than three and a half years of working studies by the Royal Commission, was released on October 3. It consists of two volumes, the first of which – the main part of the report – comprises more than 800 pages and contains 369 recommendations. The second volume contains the results of the investigations and studies on which these recommendations were based and also includes 800 pages.
Will the government reject the Commission`s recommendation to extend the more complex means test for legal aid to green forms, significantly increase income and capital limits, and abolish limits? This proposal will, for example, provide government-subsidized legal aid for tax evasion to the rich and deter the poor because of the more complicated process of filling out forms. Does the Attorney General agree that the legal centres for the poor should not be means-tested, as recommended by the Commission, but should be run locally and not as part of a new centralised quango? This is one of the methods of providing legal services in general. I was very impressed by the arguments put forward by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens` Rights on this aspect. I will ensure that my colleagues understand the importance of legal centres. The Royal Commission`s recommendations call for action by a large number of departments and agencies, both inside and outside government. Some of them would involve higher expenditure from public funds and almost all, if implemented, would require a process of prior consultation and cooperation with a wide range of interested bodies, including the various branches of the legal profession. Is it not true that, after this very thorough and prolonged examination of the legal profession, criticism of the legal profession may be considered unfounded and that the legal profession functions well and in the public interest? The Royal Commission on Legal Services was established in July 1976 under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Benson GBE, FCA, to examine the law and practice relating to the provision of legal services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and to examine whether, and if so, what changes to the structure are desirable in the public interest. the organisation, training, regulation and access to the profession of lawyer, including the manner in which remuneration is determined, whether from private or public funds, as well as rules which prevent persons other than barristers or solicitors from making transfers of property and other legal acts on behalf of other persons. The Commission`s report was published in October 1979 (Cmnd. 7648).
2. Chief Justice Burger`s comments before the Royal Commission about the poor quality of pleading in the U.S. courts were reported in the U.S. media and generated considerable controversy within the legal profession.