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June 12, 2025

YLAL summer social – 10 July 2025

Join YLAL for our Summer Social an evening of fun, friendly competition, and a chance to catch up with colleagues and friends….

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June 2, 2025

YLAL Statement on LAA Breach Update and Contingency Measures

Young Legal Aid Lawyers remains gravely concerned about the hack on the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), especially with the newly announced contingency…

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May 31, 2025

YLAL’s 20th Anniversary and Dr Laura Janes’ Honorary KC Celebration

On 23 May 2025, YLAL members old and new gathered to celebrate 20 years of YLAL, and our founder, Dr Laura Janes…

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May 21, 2025

Save the date: YLAL social!

We hope you will have a good time at our 20th anniversary celebration so we are planning to see you at another…

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May 19, 2025

20 Years, 20 Stories: Celebrating Legal Aid

YLAL is turning 20!To mark two decades of commitment to access to justice, we are collecting 20 powerful stories from and about…

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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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May 14, 2024

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…

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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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