Judicial review in relation to legal aid matter starts

R (JHB Law Ltd (trading as Lawstop) v the Lord Chancellor ...

... an application for judicial review, in which the Law Society was granted permission to intervene, and which raised what the Court described as a matter of significant importance to legal aid providers – the circumstances in which two legal help payments may be recovered in respect of the same client following an initial consultation.

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