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September 17, 2013

Demonstrate! Sunday 29 Sept

The Northern Save Justice Campaign is organising a march against legal aid cuts to feed into the big TUC march at the…

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September 5, 2013

Legal aid cuts decision

YLAL response to Government announcement on TLA proposals On 5 September the Government published its response to the Transforming Legal Aid Consultation. The…

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August 30, 2013

Westminster debate – 4 Sept

There is a Parliamentary debate on the criminal legal aid reforms and price competitive tendering taking place at 0930 on 4 September…

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August 20, 2013

Post LASPO CPD training

The Legal Aid Practitioners Group are running an evening course on legal aid post-LASPO, this Thursday 22 August 2013. Details below. There…

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August 18, 2013

Meet with your MP

YLAL is encouraging all members, as well as writing to their MPs, to go and meet with them personally in order to…

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August 2, 2013

Leaflets about legal aid cuts

YLAL has produced two leaflets to highlight the impact of new legal aid cuts proposed by the Government in the consultation paper,…

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July 22, 2013

LASPO regs debate

On 17 July 2013 Lord Bach moved a motion of “regret” against the legal aid regulations laid before parliament seeking to reduce…

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July 9, 2013

HoL debate – 11 July 2013

On Thursday 11 July 2013, 1100, the House of Lords will be debating the “Effect of cuts in legal aid funding on…

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July 6, 2013

Demonstrate! 30 July

The campaign against cuts to legal aid has made incredible progress. Now is the time for more pressure than ever before. YLAL…

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Legal executive update

There have been recent changes to the “legal executive” route to qualifying as a lawyer. Becoming a member of the Chartered Institute…

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