On 23 March 2006, several reports were published about civil legal aid. The Legal Services Commission [LSC] published two reports: 'Causes of Action' and the 'Community Legal Service Strategy'. Both these reports are available on the LSC website. We published two reports 'Getting better, earlier advice to vulnerable people', and 'Estimating the size and nature of the civil legal advice sector in England and Wales'.
This report, proposed in a fairer deal for legal aid aims to develop a strategy for helping people, especially the vulnerable and socially excluded, to more easily obtain independent advice to resolve problems they face and disputes in which they become involved. It uses new evidence to provide a better understanding of the damaging effects of unresolved problems and disputes on people's lives and people's experiences of trying to resolve them.
This report examines the size and nature of the civil legal advice sector in England and Wales. It seeks to: define the sector; establish what organisations/individuals it is comprised of; estimate the extent of supply of advice (with reference to workforce/cost implications); and explore the drivers which shape it. The full report is available in our research reports section.