On 21 February 2024, YLAL submitted our response to the Open Call for Evidence launched by the Ministry of Justice (‘MoJ’) on 19 January 2024 to gather information as part of its wider Review of Civil Legal Aid (‘RoCLA’), which commenced in January 2023. YLAL read more
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YLAL-Final-Submission-January-2023-LS-21CJS-Consultation-Download YLAL has drafted a Response to the Law Society Green Paper "Proposals for a 21st Century Justice System". YLAL welcomes the detailed look at the civil justice system and careful consideration of the sustainability of the legal aid sector. YLAL has made a number read more
13 December 2023 - Young Legal Aid Lawyers have released a statement to coincide with the hearing of the Law Society's judicial review in response to the Ministry of Justice's failure to properly implement the findings of the Criminal Legal Aid Review. YLAL-MOJ-JR-Statement.docxDownload
5 October 2023 - Young Legal Aid Lawyers is calling on the SRA and Kaplan (the company contracted to administer the Solicitors Qualification Exam, SQE) to carry out an urgent review of the booking process for SQE-1 exams, following feedback from our members that they read more
27 April 2023 Authored by Dr Jo Hynes of Public Law Project, the report focuses on the issues facing young legal aid practitioners working in the immigration and asylum sector and the consequences the issues have on the wider sector and the people relying on read more
6 April 2023 This month marks ten years of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (“LASPO”) being in force. Before LASPO legal aid was available for almost all areas of law. Overnight, LASPO excluded large areas of the law from legal read more
Young Legal Aid Lawyers (‘YLAL’) implore the SRA, as our regulator, to take urgent and decisive action to address the concerning ethnic group attainment gap in SQE assessments. With the release of the attainment data, a clear gap in attainment on the basis of ethnicity can be read more
Young Legal Aid Lawyers (‘YLAL’) has been made aware of an informal announcement by the SRA and Kaplan (who are responsible for assessing SQE examinations), which will mean a delay to many hoping to sit the SQE2 examinations scheduled for October 2022. This was communicated through read more
Sir Christopher Bellamy QC published his report on the Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review (CLAIR), dated 29 November 2021. This was a wide ranging review which considered the whole of the criminal legal aid system, from police station through to appeal.Sir Christopher made 19 recommendations for the read more