By Monidipa Fouzder2021-01-29T07:23:00+00:00
The Ministry of Justice has named a wide-ranging panel of legal experts - including a former co-chair of the Law Society’s criminal law committee - to test and challenge the recommendations made by the independent review into criminal legal aid.
The review, looking at the system in its entirety, is being led by competition lawyer and former judge
Sir Christopher Bellamy. The Ministry of Justice said the panel,
The panel includes: Tuckers managing partner Richard Atkinson, immediate past co-chair of the Society’s criminal law committee; Bill Waddington, former chair of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association; solicitor and deputy High Court judge Margaret Obi, a former member of the Society's criminal law committee; Crispin Passmore, a former director at the Solicitors Regulation Authority; and Dr Natalie Byrom, director of research at the Legal Education Foundation.