Post by nickd on Apr 18, 2012 0:44:02 GMT 1
LASPO Latest following debate on #April17
www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=10597
In a nushell....
Lords' key amendments end up being butchered by the government who sought to overturn almost everything they had voted for...
A run down on the latest on LASPO and what happened to the 11 amendments won in the Lords'
Here they are....
(1) A clearer definition of his functions (1)
(2) Access to legal services for domestic violence victims (2)
(3) A better definition of the distinction between him and his director of legal services, but he is putting forward a counter proposal for individual cases which he proposes imposes 'independence' (3 & 4 replaced)
(4) Any legal help for welfare benefit work up to first - tier tribunal level (168)
(5) Has made a concession on welfare benefits in the upper tribunal & higher courts which needs to be treated with some degree of caution until its full legal effect is known (169 & 240)
(6) Experts report in clinical negligence cases (170)
(7) Face to face advice - he wants the telephone gateway (24)
(8) Exceptions in respiratory /industrial disease or illness cases (31)
(9) Exceptions in Industrial disease cases where breach of duty by employer (32)
(10) Access to a legal services for a wider number of children (171)
(11) Access to legal services in clinical negligence cases in instances which took place when the victim was a child (172)
Nor is he giving much on domestic violence provisions with the additional opposition of amendments 192 to 196 (excluding 195)
In summary - he's gone against the Lords on almost everything with some tinkering to suit his government's aims & a meaningless concession on Upper Tribunal & higher court work in welfare benefit cases which is unlikely to benefit advice agencies given the low number of cases when the bigger problem they face is helping clients with the tsunami of benefits appeals at First Tier level - set to increase to 644,000 appeals per year according to the Tribunal judiciary!
www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=10597
In a nushell....
Lords' key amendments end up being butchered by the government who sought to overturn almost everything they had voted for...
A run down on the latest on LASPO and what happened to the 11 amendments won in the Lords'
Here they are....
(1) A clearer definition of his functions (1)
(2) Access to legal services for domestic violence victims (2)
(3) A better definition of the distinction between him and his director of legal services, but he is putting forward a counter proposal for individual cases which he proposes imposes 'independence' (3 & 4 replaced)
(4) Any legal help for welfare benefit work up to first - tier tribunal level (168)
(5) Has made a concession on welfare benefits in the upper tribunal & higher courts which needs to be treated with some degree of caution until its full legal effect is known (169 & 240)
(6) Experts report in clinical negligence cases (170)
(7) Face to face advice - he wants the telephone gateway (24)
(8) Exceptions in respiratory /industrial disease or illness cases (31)
(9) Exceptions in Industrial disease cases where breach of duty by employer (32)
(10) Access to a legal services for a wider number of children (171)
(11) Access to legal services in clinical negligence cases in instances which took place when the victim was a child (172)
Nor is he giving much on domestic violence provisions with the additional opposition of amendments 192 to 196 (excluding 195)
In summary - he's gone against the Lords on almost everything with some tinkering to suit his government's aims & a meaningless concession on Upper Tribunal & higher court work in welfare benefit cases which is unlikely to benefit advice agencies given the low number of cases when the bigger problem they face is helping clients with the tsunami of benefits appeals at First Tier level - set to increase to 644,000 appeals per year according to the Tribunal judiciary!