Black Solicitors Network Meeting, March 2014

Transforming legal aid & the Criminal Justice System - Government response Date: Friday 7th March 2014 Location: Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1PL Timings: 5.30pm - 7.30pm Speaker: BSN Director & member of the Law Society's Criminal Law Practitioners Group Joe Mensah-Dankwah (Foresters Solicitors Ltd, London) Issues

• 1.Meeting the capacity/quality requirements
• 2.Consortia & alternative contract bidding
• 3.Duty Solicitors Slots - Will firms without a Duty Solicitor Slot Survive?

  Please attend to air & share your views with fellow practitioners to debate the issues and formulate proposals that will enable BME led firms to meet the challenge of the reforms.