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June 24, 2008

Legal Services Commission 2008 Training Contracts Scheme launched

YLAL welcome the LSC’s increase in the number of training contact grants to be made available for the next scheme.  While we…

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June 23, 2008

Civil Legal Aid campaign – get involved!

Young Legal Aid Lawyers are collaborating with The Access to Justice Alliance to collect evidence about the impact of recent legal aid…

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June 19, 2008

YouTube Videos of Question Time 08! watch it now…

Check out the events page here !…

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February 28, 2008

YLAL paralegal survey published

– click here to read the full report….

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January 16, 2008

LSC announce extra sponsored training contracts!

When it became apparent late last year that only 75 of the usual sponsored training contracts had been awarded by the LSC,…

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January 15, 2008

YLAL’s Kat Craig Comments in the Guardian

YLAL Committee member Kat Craig and trainee at Christian Khan has commented in the free comment section of the Guardian – read…

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December 24, 2007

Secret Santa from the Legal Services Commission

Civil contracts to be terminated….but not sure when…. Just as legal aid lawyers were preparing to leave on Friday 21st December, they…

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December 17, 2007

Johann Hari: The scandal of this assault on legal aid

Finally, an excellent piece on legal aid in the national press – read it hereJohann Hari met with YLAL members to find…

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November 29, 2007

Young Legal Aid Lawyers welcome crucial Court of Appeal judgment on the ‘unified contract’

News release 29th November 2007 Young Legal Aid lawyers have welcomed the decision by the Court of Appeal that the Unified Contract…

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November 24, 2007

Christmas Party – 6th December, from 7pm, Garden Court Chambers – all welcome!

The party is a joint party with the HaldaneSociety of Socialist Lawyers Minimum donation: £5 (includes a bottle of wine!) Garden Court…

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