LASPO background information
Background documents to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act.
Impact assessments
HM Government response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights Report on LASPO Bill
Background documents
- Coalition Agreement (Cabinet Office website)
- Consultation and response paper to the Government consultation on reforming legal aid
- Consultation and response paper on Breaking the Cycle
- Consultation and response to the Government consultation on reducing costs in civil litigation
- Lord Justice Jackson report on Civil Litigation Costs review (Judiciary website)
- Abolition of the Legal Services Commission - business case (PDF 0.28mb)
- Delegated powers memorandum (PDF 0.60mb)
- Delegated powers memorandum for the House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (PDF 0.20mb)
- Government Response to the House of Lords Committee on Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform (PDF 0.05mb)
- Government Response to the House of Lords Committee on the Constitution (PDF 0.03mb)
Impact assessments
- Metal Theft - prohibiting cash payments and higher fines (PDF 0.21mb)
- Alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement (PDF 0.07mb)
- Reform of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (PDF 0.13mb)
- Hate crime, appeals against bail (PDF 0.08mb)
- Sentencing and Criminal Justice Components of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (PDF 0.16mb)
- Estimated cost impact of a minimum sentence for aggravated knife offences (PDF 0.02mb)
- Review of Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPPs) - Impact assessment (PDF 0.07mb)
- Referral Fees in Personal Injury Claims (PDF 0.12mb)
- Options for dealing with squatting (PDF 0.19mb)
- Dangerous driving (PDF 0.08mb)
- Legal aid (Legal Aid reform consultation)
- Central Funds (PDF 0.25mb)
- Abolition of the Legal Services Commission (PDF 0.10mb)
- Sentencing (Breaking the Cycle consultation)
- Lord Justice Jackson reforms (Proposals for reform of civil litigation consultation)
Equality impact assessments
- Alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement (PDF 0.17mb)
- Reform of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (PDF 0.16mb)
- Hate crime, appeals against bail (PDF 0.07mb)
- Sentencing and punishment of offenders: Full equality impact assessment (PDF 0.56mb)
- Minimum sentences for the new offences of threatening with an article with a blade or point or offensive weapon in public or on school premises (PDF 0.14mb)
- Increasing the Magistrates' Court fine limit (PDF 0.05mb)
- Clarification of the law on self defence (PDF 0.06mb)
- Review of Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPPs) (PDF 0.08mb)
- Referral Fees in Personal Injury Claims (PDF 0.09mb)
- Options for dealing with squatting (PDF 0.09mb)
- Knife crime and dangerous driving (PDF 0.10mb)
- Legal aid (Legal Aid reform consultation)
- Central funds (PDF 0.07mb)
- Abolition of the Legal Services Commission (PDF 0.07mb)
- Sentencing (see the Breaking the Cycle consultation)
- Lord Justice Jackson reforms (Proposals for reform of civil litigation consultation)
Privacy impact assessments
- Abolition of the Legal Services Commission (PDF 0.70mb)
- Information gateway (PDF 0.18mb)
Factsheets
- IPP Factsheet (PDF 0.03mb)
Royal Assent impact assessments and equality impact assessments
Impact assessment
Equality impact assessments