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Proposed increase to civil legal aid fees – our response
2 December 2024 – Friday’s announcement by the Lord Chancellor of a consultation on an increase in legal aid fees in housing,…
Take Your MP to Work
7 July 2024 – We are excited to be working together with Migrants Organise and the Legal Aid Practitioners Group on ‘Take…
YLAL Response to the Ministry of Justice’s “Review of Civil Legal Aid – Call for Evidence”.
On 21 February 2024, YLAL submitted our response to the Open Call for Evidence launched by the Ministry of Justice (‘MoJ’) on…
YLAL Updates
YLAL regularly sends out update emails to our members. You can access our latest update emails below: To receive updates direct to…
YLAL Response to Law Society Green Paper: ‘Proposals for a 21st Century Justice System’
YLAL has drafted a Response to the Law Society Green Paper “Proposals for a 21st Century Justice System”. YLAL welcomes the detailed…
YLAL Statement on the Law Society’s Judicial Review (Criminal Legal Aid Review)
13 December 2023 – Young Legal Aid Lawyers have released a statement to coincide with the hearing of the Law Society’s judicial…
YLAL Statement on the SQE-1 Booking Process (October 2023)
5 October 2023 – Young Legal Aid Lawyers is calling on the SRA and Kaplan (the company contracted to administer the Solicitors…
Young Legal Aid Lawyers release a new report – “Overstretched & Unsustainable: a case study of the immigration and asylum legal aid sector”
27 April 2023 Authored by Dr Jo Hynes of Public Law Project, the report focuses on the issues facing young legal aid…
Statement on Ten Years of LASPO
6 April 2023 This month marks ten years of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (“LASPO”) being in…
YLAL’s Response to the first Solicitors Qualifying Examination 1 (SQE1) assessment results
Young Legal Aid Lawyers (‘YLAL’) implore the SRA, as our regulator, to take urgent and decisive action to address the concerning ethnic group…