R (Gudanaviciene & ors) v Director of Legal Aid Casework and The Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 1840 (Admin), 13 June 2014

When the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill was passing through Parliament the Government frequently emphasised that there would be a safety net provided with regard to those areas that were going out of scope for legal aid, namely ‘exceptional funding’ (EF).