Question Time 2009 – thank you for helping us celebrate 60 years of legal aid!

17 October 2009: YLAL’s annual event, Question Time, took place in front of an audience of 250 students and practitioners at South Bank University on Thursday 15 October. The evening was a huge success, featuring interesting ideas and discussion. See Frances Gibb’s entry in The Times: http://timesonline.typepad.com/law/2009/10/boosting-legal-aid-what-about-using-interest-on-clients-money.html

A detailed write-up of the evening’s proceedings and YouTube footage will be posted here next week. In the meantime, YLAL would like to thank the following contributors:

Speakers in ‘This is your life, legal aid!’

– Ed Fitzgerald QC (Doughty Street Chambers)

– Steve Hynes (Legal Action Group)

– Professor Ed Cape (University of West of England)

– June Venters QC (Venters Solicitors)

– Gwendolen Morgan (YLAL)

– Omar Khan (YLAL)

Question Time panellists

– Jon Snow (Channel 4 News) (chair of panel)

– Lord Bach (Ministry of Justice)

– Carolyn Regan (Legal Services Commission)

– Henry Bellingham MP (Conservative Party)

– June Venters QC (Venters Solicitors)

– Afua Hirsch (The Guardian)

– Kat Craig (YLAL)

The team of event organisers and stewards

Anne Asfaw, Camella Francis, Caroline Glacken, Caroline Jelves, Emma Prescott, Charlie Bagnall, Charlie Image, Charlotte Haworth Hird, Felicity Williams, Gwendolen Morgan, Jenny Bond, Laura Janes, Miranda Hearn, Omar Khan, Piers Rankin, Prem Ahluwalia, Rachel Taylor, Sara Lomri, Sasha Zernova, Sian Davin, Victoria Fewkes.

Our sponsors

Doughty Street Chambers

Bindmans LLP

Venters Solicitors

Legal Aid Practitioners Group

Keating Chambers

TV Edwards Solicitors

Tooks Chambers

Legal Action Group

The College of Law

Irwin Mitchell

See the messages from our sponsors in the Question Time 2009 programme HERE