briefings
LAPG Briefing on APPG on Legal Aid March 2016
This document, prepared by Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group, provides a summary of the three research reports presented to the All Party Parliamentary…
Labour Legal Aid Review – report
Shortly after he was elected as leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn asked Lord Bach to carry out a comprehensive review…
Briefing for House of Lords debate
On Monday 7 September 2015, the House of Lords debated a motion of regret tabled by Lord Beecham concerning the further reduction of the…
Exceptional funding update
Exceptional legal aid funding Thank you to everyone who attended our talk on exceptional legal aid funding on Wednesday 8 July…
HoL debate 30 June 2014
On Monday 30 June 2014, after 1430, the second reading of the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill will take place in the…
JCHR JR report
On 30 April 2014 the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) – a cross-party parliamentary committee composed of MPs and peers –…
Lords debate JR reforms – 7 May
On Wednesday 7 May the House of Lords will debate a regret motion tabled by Lord Pannick QC “to move that this…
Further cuts to judicial review
On 5 February 2014 the Government announced that it would be going ahead with a series of changes to restrict access to…
Cuts – where are we now?
YLAL has produced a one-page updating guide to show where we are now with the current round of proposed legal aid cuts….
YLAL submissions to JCHR
YLAL has submitted evidence to the JCHR as part of their inquiry into the implications for access to justice of the Government’s legal…