Chapter 10 Multiple Choice Questions

. What is the Legal Aid Agency?

The body which regulates the legal advice centres.

The body which runs the courts and tribunals

The body which runs the legal aid scheme

The body which allocate lawyers to defend those accused of criminal acts.

. What is the scope of legal aid?

Legal advice on any matter of English Law

All services provided by solicitors

Services set out in LASPO Act 2012

Services provided by law centres

. In the context of legal aid, what are 'service levels'?

These are the different areas of work for which payments can be made by the Legal Aid scheme

These are the different categories of franchise that can awarded under the Legal Aid scheme

These define the services that can be offered directly to the public by barristers

These are the different types of legal service that can be paid for under the Legal Aid scheme

. In the context of legal aid, what is the 'merits test'?

This is the test designed to ensure that funding should be available only where a reasonable private paying client would be prepared to fund a case.

This is the test which is applied to determine what financial contribution a legally aided litigant makes to pay for his case.

This is the test that the Lord Chancellor uses to decide whether, exceptionally, funding should be provided for a particularly difficult case.

This is the test that ensures that cases affecting the treatment of children are funded

. What is the Public Defender Service?

This is the same as the Criminal Defence Service

A scheme for providing criminal defence services other than by solicitors in private practice

A service designed to defend the public interest (e.g. on environmental issues)

A service provided by the Crown Court to those accused of serious criminal activity

. What are conditional fee agreements?

Conditional fee agreements provide that lawyers' fees are paid only when litigation is successful

These are agreements that legal fees are paid under conditions specified by Government

These are the equivalent of the American system of contingency fees

Conditional fee agreements relate to the agreements made between barristers and solicitors to pay them on condition that the turn up to take a case as promised.

. What is the Low Commission?

A mis-print for Law Commission

The body responsible for delivering low cost legal services

An inquiry into options for new ways of funding and delivering legal advice

The body responsible for delivering public legal education

. What is Street Law?

Street law is another name for Public Legal Education

Street law is another name for the Highway Code

Street Law is a project under which law students in a large number of universities offer information about legal rights to community groups and members of the public

Street law is a form of legal advice provided under the Legal Aid scheme

. What are damages based agreements (DBAs)?

DBAs are those under which lawyers get their fees by taking a percentage out of the damages recovered by their own clients

DBAs are those where a lawyer's fees are only paid if a judge decides what the fees should be

DBAs are those paid where fees are fixed

DBAs are agreements to pay referral fees to a lawyer

. What is third party funding?

Third party funding happens where a third party, such as a Trade Union, takes on litigation.

Third party funding is where funding is provided by an insurance company

Third party funding is litigation is funded by a friend or relative of the claimant.

Third party funding is where an investor buys the right to conduct litigation on behalf of a claimant or, more usually, a group of claimants

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