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YLAL Response to the Ministry of Justice’s “Review of Civil Legal Aid – Call for Evidence”.
On 21 February 2024, YLAL submitted our response to the Open Call for Evidence launched by the Ministry of Justice (‘MoJ’) on…
YLAL Response to Law Society Green Paper: ‘Proposals for a 21st Century Justice System’
YLAL has drafted a Response to the Law Society Green Paper “Proposals for a 21st Century Justice System”. YLAL welcomes the detailed…
YLAL Statement on the Law Society’s Judicial Review (Criminal Legal Aid Review)
13 December 2023 – Young Legal Aid Lawyers have released a statement to coincide with the hearing of the Law Society’s judicial…
YLAL Statement on the SQE-1 Booking Process (October 2023)
5 October 2023 – Young Legal Aid Lawyers is calling on the SRA and Kaplan (the company contracted to administer the Solicitors…
Young Legal Aid Lawyers release a new report – “Overstretched & Unsustainable: a case study of the immigration and asylum legal aid sector”
27 April 2023 Authored by Dr Jo Hynes of Public Law Project, the report focuses on the issues facing young legal aid…
Statement on Ten Years of LASPO
6 April 2023 This month marks ten years of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (“LASPO”) being in…
YLAL Meetings and Events
This page contains information about recent and upcoming YLAL meetings and events across the country. New members are always welcome to attend our…
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…
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 assessing…
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…