News
APPG meeting 7 Nov
There will be a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid on Wednesday 7 November at 4pm. The meeting…
News from LAPG conference
YLAL recently contributed to the annual conference of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group. Committee member, Simao Paxi-Cato reports back on what happened:…
Website problems
We are currently experiencing some problems with our website. We hope to have these resolved as soon as possible and apologise in…
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…