News
APPG meeting 11 July
There will be a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid in Parliament on Wednesday 11 July 2012 starting…
LALY awards 2012
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the LAPG Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards. YLAL is pleased to announce that our…
Essay competition to win free LPC place
The partner magazine to the Solicitors’ Journal “Young Lawyer” has teamed up with legal training provider NCLT to offer one of their…
Access to profession
Professor Hilary Sommerlad, School of Law, University of Leicester is looking for volunteers to take part in a piece of research on…
“Ping pong” action
The Parliamentary process known as “ping pong” has truly begun. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill was back…
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/…
YLAL “lawyer to watch”
Guardian Law has a series where readers can nominate lawyers to watch. We are very pleased that YLAL founder Laura Janes has…
False Economy blog on MP report
Nadia Salam and Katie Tiley have written for the False Economy blog about our MP report: http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/new-report-shows-mps-will-struggle-to-help-constituents-after-legal-aid-cha…
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)….
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…