Access to Justice Act 1999

Access to Justice Act 1999
Dates
United Kingdom Parliament
Long title	An Act to establish the Legal Services Commission, the Community Legal Service and the Criminal Defence Service; to amend the law of legal aid in Scotland; to make further provision about legal services; to make provision about appeals, courts, judges and court proceedings; to amend the law about magistrates and magistrates’ courts; and to make provision about immunity from action and costs and indemnities for certain officials exercising judicial functions.
Citation	[1998] c 22
Royal assent	27 July 1999

Access to Justice Act 1999 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It replaced the legal aid system in England and Wales. It created the Legal Services Commission replacing the Legal Aid Board, and two new schemes: Community Legal Service to fund civil and family cases, and the Criminal Defence Service for criminal cases.^[1] The Act put a cap on the amount spent on civil legal aid.^[2] The use of conditional fee agreements, commonly known as "no-win no-fee", was extended to most civil court cases.^[3]

Rights of Appeal

Section 54 of the Act both creates and limits rights of appeal. One effect of this, as set out in the UK Supreme Court Practice Direction 1^[4] is "The most important general restriction on rights of appeal is section 54(4) of the Access to Justice Act 1999. The effect of this provision is that the Supreme Court may not entertain any appeal against an order of the Court of Appeal refusing permission for an appeal to the Court of Appeal from a lower court. " which accords with Section 40(6) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005

References

↑ "Access to Justice Act 1999, emplaw.com". Retrieved 9 July 2012.
↑ "Law Centres Federation". Retrieved 10 July 2012.
↑ "How did no-win no-fee change things?". BBC News. 7 May 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
↑ "UK Supreme Court Practice Direction 1". Retrieved 30 March 2016.

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