LEGAL AID AND LEGAL ADVICE Joint Memorandum by the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary.

whether or be resolved that legal before than so as the proposed scheme should funds by a block grant. by the Law Society who would be There are various ways controlled appointing a representative on the the system; system and 5. The Committee recommend that be financed out of public would be administered This grant answerable to the Lord Chancellor. in which the administration can be by the Lord Chancellor - for examples body which the Law Society Sets up to administer by insisting on a full audit of the expenditure by the Society, checked if necessary, by a Government audit; Law by the appointment by the Lord Chancellor of an Advisory Council or Committee (as recommended by the Rushcliffe Committee), who would scrutinise the working of the and its results as revealed by the Reports of the body containing the Lord Chancellor's representative.