End of specialist support?
YLAL has responded to the Legal Services Commission (LSC) consultation on the future of the Specialist Support Service. The LSC aims to end the service after the current contracts run out at the end of June 2012.
Reports
Keep the minimum salary
YLAL has submitted its response to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) consultation on the proposal to scrap the minimum salary requirement for trainee solicitors.
Why we must protect the shrinking legal aid safety net
Nadia 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/
False Economy blog on MP report
Nadia Salam and Katie Tiley have written for the False Economy blog about our MP report:
Urgent: days to save legal aid
The 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!
Urgent: days to save legal aid
The 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!
Impact of legal aid cuts on MPs
“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.
Last chance in the Lords...
On 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.
Carers Watch blog post
Carita Thomas has written an update on the legal aid bill for the Carers Watch blog site
http://carerwatch.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/legal-aid-bill-goes-into-the-...
Quakers Asylum & Refugee Network article
Carita Thomas has written "Vulnerable Children will lose access to justice with cuts to legal aid" for the website of the Quakers Asylum and Refugee Network
http://www.qarn.org.uk/homepage/2011/12/18/vulnerable-children-will-lose...