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The Legal Services Commission’s (“LSC”) consultation paper detailing its proposals for the auction of contracts at lowest prices (so called "best value tendering") will drive many firms out of business; the quality of service provided by the survivors will decline further and the legitimacy of the criminal justice system will be undermined. It has been a great strength of the Legal Aid system that client’s have had highly valued relationships with solicitors' firms. They are often "socially excluded", powerless and in very troubled circumstances. Defence solicitors' engagement with them in resolving problems and achieving best outcomes has both a high personal value but also a positive social value in delivering "rights" and justice.

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• Denise Breen-Lawton
• Simon Paul Farnsworth
• Deborah Morgan
• Gary Kakindiros
• Carline Stack
• Emma Watson
• Ben Irwin
• Raymond Taylor
• Margaret Anderson
• Jacqui Kinsey
• JEAN FULLER
• vera bannerman
• Craig John McKay
• michael miller
• JOHN ANDREW SCOTT
• nick hammond
• Hywel Davies
• Stephen Sampson
• D E Brown
• Geoff Sproson
• Martin Scarborough
• amanda fuller
• Judith Redfern
• Kate Lumsdon
• Z Wilcock
• Valeriae Att
• cari lewis-powell
• Michelle Nardone
• Matthew Farmer
• James Roberts
• Stella lawlor
• Kevin Moses
• Sheryl Nwosu
• Sergio Vittorio URISTANI
• Carole Dobson
• Jane Longhorn
• Claire Harvey
• Nick Gray
• Richard Smith
• Karen Denby
• Steven HARMAN
• Brian Cook
• Claire Chubbock
• Doreen Turton
• Deborah Moffatt
• Claire Milner
• Lynn Phillips
• Lesley Willcock
• Gemma Foster
• Leigh Jackson
• Paul Smith
• Mark Maddison
• Jayne Oliver
• James Suthers
• Brian Coombes
• Frances Ibson
• Katy Dykes
• Richard Hildrow
• Suzanne Hulme
• Ryan Hockley
• sarah thornton
• Alison Craven
• Anne Forbes
• Amy Underdown
• Steve Lewis-Norman
• Emma Parker
• Victor Summers
• Kathy Hill
• Hefin Rees
• Tim Matthews
• Nigel Duncan Collar
• Ruth Doyle
• Paul Barker
• Len Simkins
• Kirandeep Bhogal
• Stephen Gowing
• Andlib Mohsin
• Ruth White
• Ruth Hall
• Santiago Horro Monforte
• Shanta Perera
• James M Mackie
• john ridley
• Alison Ivin
• Kevin McCullagh
• Soraya Lawrence
• graham arnold
• marc burman
• pat finley
• Sue Johnson
• Richard Lacey
• Helena Amartey
• Michael Wood
• paul purnell
• Tom Barley
• Matthew Davies
• Lorna Yates
• Damian Hanley
• David Wallace
• Nigel Lambert QC
• Victoria Lancaster
• Valerie Charbit
• Helen Townsend
• William Jonathan Gregg
• F K Borthwick
• Michael A Reynolds
• Derek Hance
• Dorothy Garratt
• Katy Osborne
• Craig Marchant
• Nadine Hamden
• Joanne Johnson
• Patrick O'Reilly
• LINDA BARTLET
• Michelle Falco
• Patricia Beckett
• Bernard Keenan
• Jonathan Hall
• Stuart Snow
• Selena Harris
• Joanne Kheder
• Richard Pownall
• Nicola Manning
• Keely Bunton
• Rebecca King
• Mark Gilmartin
• PETER FREEMAN
• Neil Wharmby
• alan watson
• Jacqui Fuhr
• colin postans
• Katy Duffell
• Zoe Preston
• Janet Wilson
• Amy Rought-Brooks
• Christopher Wilson
• Rami Hamad
• Jeremy Abraham
• ANDREW HOLLAND
• Rowena Tompkins
• Aimee Phoenix
• Karen Bool
• Polly Fews
• Paul McDonnell
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• Derek Stillie
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• Sarah Louise Bartram
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• Michael John Bartram
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• Emma Anstead
• Paul Burfutt
• Vicky Kean
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• amanda pannell
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• Nina Hansen
• jeffrey Forrest, solicitor
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• Gary McGough
• Jasbir Kaur
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• Clare Ashcroft
• Mark Thomason
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• Patricia Lees
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• Michael O'Brien
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• matheos leftereris
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• Sally Ann Wright
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• Simon May
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• Timothy Ashmole
• Alexandra Anderson
• William Baker
• Gurdeep Gill
• Neil Headding
• Colin Foster
• Maureen Heading
• Simon Drugan
• Sakina Amlani
• Kate Scott
• David Burns
• Tom Gaisford
• Sarah Trippier
• Alison Jane Leigh
• Rhona Friedman
• Kiran Syan
• David Martin
• Jamal Sapsard
• JULIE MCGREGOR
• john mcgregor
• James Turner QC
• Jeremy Nicholas Barnecutt
• Ben Graham
• MARTIN RYAN
• adrian dodd
• Tracy Borkin
• M Jefferson
• Joseph Norton
• Mr Waseem Chowdhary
• Andros Anastasiou
• simon farnsworth
• Michael Heath
• G.Hall
• Terence White
• Edwin Cunnah
• Roger Griffiths Chairman FACT N Wales
• Hanif Alam
• Gail Saunders
• David Race
• John R Hudson
• Joy Gower
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• michael barnes
• Neil FitzGibbon
• R K Sutton
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• Kathleen McMorran
• louise sweet
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• Bob Douthwaite
• Ffreda Douthwaite
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• Ann Schofield
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• Audrey Osborne
• Angela Smith
• Mohammed Asif
• margaret gardener FASO Director
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• abraham dwek
• Michael Bernstein
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• Susan Griffiths
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• Leslie Lewis
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• J A Hampton
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• AFZAL SHAKIL
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• Grant Berman
• ELLA MILLETT
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• Stanley Reiz
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• Teresa Berridge
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• Alana Law
• Mathew Turner
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• Susie Wilson
• Gyles Carne
• James Edenborough
• Julie Wainwright
• Suzanne Whitwam
• Malcolm L. Lusb y
• Frazer Laing
• Jude OConnor
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• Charlotte Butler Kitto
• Francesca Wild
• Sarah Russell
• Jonathan Pyke
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• Christopher Diamond
• Jasmin Martin
• Alex Smith
• Joanne Rodford
• Matthew Fresco
• Alison Williams
• Richard Carne
• SARAH WILLIAMS
• Chris Daw
• Stephen Cupit
• saul brody
• Ian Wilson
• Anna Morris
• Jackie Peake
• Shefik Osman
• Denise McKeown
• Russell Neale
• Richard Geoffrey Ascroft
• christopher doe
• Menissa Saleem
• Michael de Navarro QC
• Nikki White
• john green
• Gary Martyn
• renata del luongo
• JANET M GODFREY
• Deborah Gooding
• Carol Errington
• Mike Codling
• Susan Harrison
• Sulma Mansuri
• Mark Marriott
• Lauren Galsworthy
• Michael Oerton
• Ian Dixey
• margaret frame
• LJC Selby
• JILL RUTHERFORD
• Lucy Tindall
• Carrie Shorey
• Karen Klonek
• Anne-Marie Critchley
• Austin Welch
• Sophie Pamela Cartwright
• Patrick Bligh
• Adam Pearson
• scott ingram
• Sheku Kamara
• Wendi Cooper
• Abigail Ibbett
• Amjad Malik
• Graham Upright
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• Annie Lieberman
• Eileen Riley
• Alan Drabble
• Mrs Beryl Proctor
• Sara Phillipson
• David Johnston
• Janice Chapman
• Alan Midgley
• Anne Arnold
• Sophia Coote
• Alison Donovan
• Frances Carne
• Trevor Jones
• Leila Cannon
• Matthew Banham
• Tracey Ford
• Barry STRETTLE
• Peter Fortune
• David Farrell QC
• Stephen Medley
• ADRIAN AMER
• Margaret Obi
• VINCENT COUGHLIN QC
• Nicola Monehen
• James David Monehen
• James Patrick Monehen
• Joanna Monehen
• Catherine Bond
• Robert Annison
• Roy Furness
• lauren digby
• Harry Dodd
• VALERIE HOWES
• Pearl Carson
• Bharat Kumar Gupta
• Poppy Grace
• Gillian Parker
• Luisa Hill
• Nehal Vasani
• sonia tiwana
• Piers Norsworthy
• Hanna Gronborg
• Neil Davies
• Colin Henderson
• Sophie Bell
• Richard Parker
• Allan Compton
• Trudy Halliday
• Judy Woodhams
• Simon Murgatroyd
• Alan Banks
• Valerie Potter
• Nicholas Fisher
• Mark Carne
• Doreen Strettle

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