Access to Justice and Funding | AQA A-Level Law (7162)
Access to Justice and Funding
- 39 questions
- 3 subtopics
- The nature of law and the English legal system, 25 marks on every paper
- Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3
How people get legal help: advice agencies, law centres, trade unions, conditional fee agreements and the criminal legal aid scheme..
It covers advice Services and Private Funding, advice Agencies and Conditional Fee Agreements and criminal and Civil Legal Aid.
Sample questions from Access to Justice and Funding
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Advice Services and Private Funding
What type of legal support do trade unions typically provide to their members?
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Legal advice and representation, particularly for employment-related disputes, workplace injuries and contractual matters. -
Advice Services and Private Funding
What is a conditional fee agreement (CFA)?
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An arrangement where a solicitor agrees to take a case on the basis that no fee is payable if the case is lost. -
Advice Agencies and Conditional Fee Agreements
In what type of disputes do trade unions particularly offer legal advice and representation to their members?
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Trade unions offer legal advice and representation particularly in employment-related disputes. -
Advice Agencies and Conditional Fee Agreements
Explain why the success fee under a CFA is capped at 100% of the basic fee.
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To limit the additional amount a solicitor can charge when a case is won, preventing excessive costs being passed to the winning client. -
Criminal and Civil Legal Aid
Which body administers public funding for criminal cases?
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The Legal Aid Agency. -
Criminal and Civil Legal Aid
What does the means test for civil legal aid assess?
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The means test assesses the applicant's income and capital to determine financial eligibility.
The 3 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Advice Services and Private Funding | Recall questions on help lines, the Citizens Advice Bureau, law centres and trade unions, paying from one's own resources, before-the-event and after-the-event insurance, and conditional fee agreements. | 10 |
| Advice Agencies and Conditional Fee Agreements | Recall questions on what advice agencies offer and how they are staffed and funded, when insurance is taken out, and what a conditional fee agreement costs a client who wins or loses, including the capped success fee. | 10 |
| Criminal and Civil Legal Aid | Recall questions on criminal legal aid, free police station advice and the interests of justice and means tests, civil legal aid after the 2012 Act with its means and merits tests, and barriers to access to justice. | 19 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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