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Amandeep Gill's Analysis: The LSC tendering disaster: A false economy

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Date:13 AUG 2010

The LSC tendering disaster:  A false economy

Amandeep GillThe headline on the front page of the Law Society Gazette said it all. "Family Law ‘decimated' by LSC tender" (29 July 2010). Legal Services Commission (LSC) statistics show that the number of family law providers has fallen by approximately 46% from 2400 to 1300. The Gazette reports that the Law Society is taking legal advice about whether there are grounds to challenge the LSC tendering process.

In an open letter to The Times Co-Chairs of the Association of Lawyers for Children Piers Pressdee QC and Alan Bean warned that "unless the Government steps in from October the family justice system already creaking from years of under investment will officially be in complete breakdown".

Lord Justice Wall also wrote to the chief executive of the LSC conveying concerns from the judiciary that the result of the tendering process would be an "unworkable system".

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