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July 5, 2025

In Conversation with Alex Benn

Copyright Oliver Frank Chanarin 2023. Courtesy of Alex Benn. Commissioned and produced by Forma for the project, ‘A Perfect Sentence’.” During June,…

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May 19, 2025

YLAL statement on the recent Legal Aid Agency Data Breach

Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) is deeply concerned by the recent cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) online digital services. It…

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December 3, 2024

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,…

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February 5, 2024

Email Updates

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December 13, 2023

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…

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October 5, 2023

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…

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February 19, 2022

Creating a diverse profession with lawyers equipped for the modern legal market

This article was guest-written by Craig Tickner, the President of CILEX (the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) .   Around 21% of solicitors and 34%…

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December 15, 2021

Q&A with Katy Robinson on Solicitor Apprenticeships and the SQE

Whilst we’re talking about different routes to qualification, there is another option to the LPC, separate from SQE, which has been available…

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December 3, 2021

SQE: (Un)Reasonable Adjustments?

This article was written by a guest author, who would like to remain anonymous.   I decided to write this blog to…

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