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May 21, 2025

Save the date: YLAL social!

We hope you will have a good time at our 20th anniversary celebration so we are planning to see you at another…

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May 19, 2025

20 Years, 20 Stories: Celebrating Legal Aid

YLAL is turning 20!To mark two decades of commitment to access to justice, we are collecting 20 powerful stories from and about…

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YLAL statement on the recent Legal Aid Agency Data Breach

Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) is deeply concerned by the recent cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) online digital services. It…

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May 13, 2022

YLAL’s Response to the first Solicitors Qualifying Examination 1 (SQE1) assessment results

Young Legal Aid Lawyers (‘YLAL’) implore the SRA, as our regulator, to take urgent and decisive action to address the concerning ethnic group…

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March 30, 2022

YLAL’s response to the delay in the provision of SQE2 exams

Young Legal Aid Lawyers (‘YLAL’) has been made aware of an informal announcement by the SRA and Kaplan (who are responsible for…

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March 15, 2022

YLAL Statement on the Government Response to the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid

  Sir Christopher Bellamy QC published his report on the Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review (CLAIR), dated 29 November 2021. This was a wide…

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March 8, 2022

YLAL submission to the Government consultation on Human Rights Act reform

On 14th December 2021 the Ministry of Justice announced an open consultation, entitled: Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill of Rights…

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February 19, 2022

Creating a diverse profession with lawyers equipped for the modern legal market

This article was guest-written by Craig Tickner, the President of CILEX (the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) .   Around 21% of solicitors and 34%…

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#YLALVirtual 16 February 2022 – Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill Of Rights Consultation

At our #YLALVirtual on Wednesday 16 February 2022 at 6.30pm, our incredible panel of legal aid practitioners and policy experts gathered to…

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