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Legal aid news – May 2016
Exceptional Case Funding: on 20 May, the Court of Appeal overturned the judgment by the Administrative Court that the Exceptional Case Funding…
Response to Bach Commission
This is Young Legal Aid Lawyers’ submission to the call for written evidence by the Bach Commission on Access to Justice, which was…
Legal aid news – April 2016
Residence test: on 18 April, the Supreme Court heard the appeal by the Public Law Project in the residence test case. The…
Legal aid news – March 2016
LASPO review: YLAL co-chairs Rachel and Ollie signed this letter to The Guardian calling on the government to review the Legal Aid,…
SRA consultation response
YLAL has today (4 March 2016) responded to the consultation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on a proposed Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE),…
Legal aid news – February 2016
Domestic violence evidence criteria: the Court of Appeal ruled that the regulation setting out the evidence criteria for victims of domestic violence…
Legal aid news – January 2016
January 2016 was a busy month in the legal aid world – here is our round-up of the latest legal aid news….
Criminal Legal Aid – Update
Criminal Legal Aid Contracts – An Update – January 2016 In October 2015, the Legal Aid Agency considered all the tenders that…