Exceptional Case Funding: Lord Chancellor must still do better

Review of ECF Guidance and response to Justice Committee report

• R (ota Gudanaviciene & Ors) v The Director of Legal Aid Casework & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 1622 (‘Gudanaviciene 2 ’) where the Court of Appeal shared the adverse view of Collins J of the Lord Chancellor’s Guidance on ECF and largely allowed the appeals against his  Gudanaviciene v Director of Legal Aid Casework and the Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 1840 (Admin) Collins J;
• Exceptional Funding Guidance (Non-Inquests) (‘the Guidance’) revised in the light of Gudanaviciene (but see below; and see http://www.familylaw.co.uk/news_and_comment/lord-chancellor-s-guidance-on-exceptional-case-funding); and
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