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shawn
                              

editorial director, rightsnet
Member since
28th Jul 2005

LSC's Community Legal Advice Centre plans in disarray
Fri 24-Nov-06 04:30 PM

The Legal Services Commission's plans to introduce Community Legal Advice Centres (CLACs) in Gateshead and Leicester from next April have been hit by a boycott of the proposed new unified contract from the Law Centres bidding to run the new centres.

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RE: LSC's Community Legal Advice Centre plans in disarray, keith venables, 27th Nov 2006, #1
RE: LSC's Community Legal Advice Centre plans in disarray, Gareth Morgan, 28th Nov 2006, #2

keith venables
                              

welfare rights caseworker, leicester law centre
Member since
22nd Jan 2004

RE: LSC's Community Legal Advice Centre plans in disarray
Mon 27-Nov-06 09:35 AM

I don't think it's true to say we are boycotting the CLAC. We have concerns about the wording of the proposed contract, but as LSC have indicated that the problematic clause was not intended to apply to not-for-profit agencies it will hopefully prove not to be an issue.

My understanding is that the proposed contract was for all LSC suppliers not just the CLACs.

  

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Gareth Morgan
                              

Managing Director, Ferret Information Systems, Cardiff
Member since
20th Feb 2004

RE: LSC's Community Legal Advice Centre plans in disarray
Tue 28-Nov-06 12:22 PM

Today's announcement says, inter alia:

"Introducing a ‘unified contract’ for civil legal services in April 2007, starting with standard terms to bring law firms and NfP agencies under the same contract conditions."

  

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