Reports

YLAL Response: Legal Aid for Inquests

Many of YLAL's members work closely with organisations such as INQUEST, the charity that supports bereaved families. YLAL supports the following recommendations by INQUEST in relation to legal aid for inquests:

a. Automatic non-means tested funding should be provided to families for specialist legal representation immediately following a state-related death.

b. Legal aid should also include financial support for families, with reference to: travel and subsistence, overnight accommodation, and loss of earnings.

YLAL Response to LASPO Part 2 consultation

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act Part II changed the way civil claims can be funded.

In YLAL's response to the Government's consultation, we call for an extension of Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting to Judicial Review, Actions Against the Police and Human Rights Act claims.

YLAL Midlands event: Women in Law

You can find our live tweeting of the Women in Law event here.

This event was hosted by KCH Garden Square Chambers in Nottingham on Wednesday 13 June. It focussed on the progression of women at the Bar, in the solicitors' profession and in the judiciary.

We were joined by:

Time for Justice: Event and Briefing

Following Early Day Motion 1111, which concerns the government's proposed Statutory Instrument (SI) on Criminal Legal Aid remuneration, a debate will take place in the House of Commons on this Tuesday 8 May 2018.

We want all MPs to know about the crisis in the criminal justice system.

Tell your MP now!

APPG on Legal Aid - 17.04.18

APPG on Legal Aid : Post-LASPO Litigation – Where are we now?

Panellists:

Olive Craig (Rights of Women on domestic violence evidence requirements)
Simon Creighton (Founding Partner, Bhatt Murphy on legal aid for prisoners)
Polly Brendon (Public Law Project on Exceptional Case Funding)
Jo Cecil (Garden Court Chambers and The Criminal Bar Association)
Matthew Shelly (Legal Aid Agency (MOJ), Deputy Director of Legal Aid and Court Fees Policy)

Summary:

How To... Meet With Your MP

YLAL has prepared a document for its members on How to meet with your MP, which is attached.

Thanks to YLAL's Heather Thomas and Maia Lask.

APPG on Legal Aid - 07.03.2018

APPG on Legal Aid: Early Advice

Lord Low on the Low Commission

Lord Low reported on the findings of the Low Commission (reports published in January 2014 and March 2015 can be found here: https://www.lowcommission.org.uk/) that the advice deficit has widened significantly and that this is not, therefore, an issue that the government can afford to ignore.