Public Interest Reports

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What are Public Interest Reports?
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What are Public Interest Reports?

The LSC established an advisory panel to help our regional offices make decisions on cases that may have a public interest element. This can affect:

whether a case is within scope
how the merits, cost benefit and affordability of a case should be approached.

The Public Interest Advisory Panel is chaired by a member of the LSC’s Commission Board. Panel representatives include members of the:

LSC Commission Board
Consumers Association
The Law Society
Bar Council
Liberty
Justice
Public Law Project.

The Panel provides the LSC and the client with an opinion on the public interest of each case it looks at. Significant ones are graded ‘exceptional’, ‘high’ or generally ‘significant’.

The LSC takes these reports into account when making decisions under the Funding Code.

Viewing the reports

Cases are grouped by subject matter.

View summaries of the reports here.

View detailed reports here.

The panel also publishes reports in Focus newsletter.

For more information

More information on the panel is in:

Focus 31 (p2)
Section 5 of the Funding Code: Decision Making Guidance ( in Volume 3 of the LSC Manual).

Please contact the Funding Policy team for more information.

Last updated: 06 December 2007