The Law Society described the news as “extremely disturbing” and said hundreds of firms, including those which had provided valued services in their communities for years, had lost contracts.
In a letter to legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly, Linda Lee, the new president of the Law Society, said: “The number of firms being shut out vastly exceeds anything we (and, we believe, the LSC) could have reasonably anticipated.
“It is likely to mean that tens of thousands of clients will find that their solicitor is no longer able to undertake legal aid work, and those clients may need to find another lawyer in the middle of their case.”



