Articles Archive
Below are all our previously published articles and news items - blog posts will be included here too.
There are also 2 wordpress blog sites which we previously used and for whom content is still available, although they are not currently being updated:
View from the Gravy Train
Thanks 2 Legal Aid
Keep the minimum salary
Post date: 10th of April 2012YLAL has submitted its response to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) consultation on the proposal to scrap the minimum salary requirement for trainee solicitors.
Read more...Why we must protect the shrinking legal aid safety net
Post date: 3rd of April 2012Nadia Salam has written for The Social Issue blog on legal aid cuts and the telephone gateway in December 2011
http://thesocialissue.com/2011/12/why-we-must-protect-the-shrinking-legal-aid-safety-net/
Read more...YLAL "lawyer to watch"
Post date: 3rd of April 2012Guardian Law has a series where readers can nominate lawyers to watch. We are very pleased that YLAL founder Laura Janes has been named Lawyer to watch for April 2012.
The full article and the reasons why Laura was nominated can be read here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/apr/02/laura-janes-lawyer-to-watch
Read more...False Economy blog on MP report
Post date: 2nd of April 2012Nadia Salam and Katie Tiley have written for the False Economy blog about our MP report:
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Urgent: days to save legal aid
Post date: 29th of March 2012The legal aid bill has now left the Lords. It will be back in the House of Commons this coming Tuesday (17th April). There are only a few days left to save legal aid and we need you more than ever!
Read more...Impact of legal aid cuts on MPs
Post date: 13th of March 2012“Nowhere else to turn: The impact of legal aid cuts on MPs’ ability to help their constituents”
A report setting out the findings of a study by the Young Legal Aid Lawyers, investigating the effect of the legal aid cuts on the ability of MPs to help their constituents (download from below). To be launched in Parliament at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid at 1330 on 14th March 2012.
Read more...Legal Aid Bill MP action
Post date: 4th of March 2012The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill will finish its passage through the House of Lords on 27 March 2012. A number of amendments have been tabled to lessen the impact of the Bill. These include amendments:
Read more...Last chance in the Lords...
Post date: 29th of February 2012On the 5th March 2012 the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill will reach its final stage in the House of Lords – the report stage.
Read more...Human rights essay competition
Post date: 1st of February 2012Law students, trainee solicitors, pupil barristers and junior lawyers (current, prospective or inbetween stages) are invited to enter the Law Society's annual Graham Turnbull essay competition on human rights.
This year's essay title is: ‘In the light of the growing prison population should we look for alternatives to imprisonment?' The deadline for entries is Friday 23 March 2012.
To find out more please click here