This kit aims to help readers understand the requirements and changes in Legal Aid franchising. Each volume makes reference to the Legal Aid Board requirements. Law Society Practice Management Standards are also referred to throughout.

Reform of legal aid has given greater urgency to the need to apply for and achieve a franchise. This kit provides an easily accessible tool to work through to both understand and implement the changes that are necessary to achieve the standard. For those already in the process of an application, the work is available in separate sections to allow the purchase of the volume most pertinent to the stage facing the firm. Each volume makes full reference to the Legal Aid Board requirements and the update ensures that where these requirements have changed, the main volumes are brought up to date with current Board specifications. Law Society Practice Management Standards are also referred to throughout. Full of checklists, useful appendices containing explanatory examples and reference material, each volume will help your firm or organisation: identify areas of compliance; design and implement procedures to change areas of non-compliance; document these procedures toward the all-important Office Manual (covered extensively in Volume 4); address management issues that result from the franchise, but are not essential to an application.

In June 1967 the American Bar Foundation undertook a study of utilization by the poor of legal services. The purpose of this research was to learn the extent to which low-income people availed themselves of legal service & to determine what factors affected their use of legal services. Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.