Legal aid access for digitally excluded
Insufficient provision and access to legal aid for digitally excluded individuals, exacerbated by reliance on remote advice.
7 items
1 source
4 inquiries
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Legal aid access for digitally excluded has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
7 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (7)
143 — Legal aid before the Sheriff
Recommendation: Consideration should be given to securing that legal aid is available in the proceedings before the Sheriff (18.22).
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151 — Representation before Hearings
Recommendation: In considering the whole question of the representation of children and of their parents before Children’s Hearings attention should be paid to the necessity to avoid the introduction of any formal or adversarial character into the proceedings (18.33).
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141 — Application for recall within seven days
Recommendation: A parent, guardian or safeguarder of the child should be entitled to apply to the Sheriff for recall of the Order at any time within seven days after the removal of the child (18.20).
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HIA-11 — Legal Aid for Applicants
Recommendation: We recommend that applicants should be eligible for legal aid to allow them to obtain legal assistance to make an application for an award.
Gov response: No formal government response published. The Inquiry reported on 20 January 2017, the month the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed; the report The Executive Office and the Northern Ireland Office laid before Parliament in September 2019 …
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AC-1c — Legal Support Signposting
Recommendation: IBCA include a prominent reference to the availability of legal support paid by IBCA on all registration and application forms and in public information about the compensation scheme and that the Solicitors Regulation Authority remind solicitors of their obligations.
Words of: The Infected Blood Compensation Authority, in its news release "IBCA accepts recommendations in Infected Blood Inquiry additional report", 21 July 2025
Gov response: Today (Monday 21 July 2025) we have given our response to the Infected Blood Inquiry additional report published on 9 July. We accept all recommendations in the report for IBCA.
Accepted
In progress
MACP-43 — Provide Legal Aid for victims' families for representation at appropriate inquests.
Recommendation: That consideration be given to the provision of Legal Aid to victims or the families of victims to cover representation at an Inquest in appropriate cases.
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IR2-15 — Support Services for Applicants
Recommendation: I recommend that the scheme should include provision of the following support services to be provided without charge to the applicant: a) an advice and advocacy service, supplemented where necessary by discretionary access to independent legal advice and representation, where …
Words of: UK Government, Full Government Response to the Infected Blood Inquiry's May 2024 Report (CP 1318), presented to Parliament by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 14 May 2025
Gov response: With respect to recommendations 15 and 17 of the Second Interim Report, the Government acknowledges the immense psychological harm that has been caused as a result of this scandal, and is committed to offering psychological …
Accepted