'Desperation out there' looking for lawyers through civil legal aid scheme

Calls are being made for an urgent overhaul of the civil legal aid scheme amid a shortage of active members within the family law solicitors panel.

Just under 34,000 legal aid cases were referred to private solicitors under the scheme over the last five years. 

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