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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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April 6, 2023

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…

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May 13, 2022

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…

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March 30, 2022

YLAL’s response to the delay in the provision of SQE2 exams

Young Legal Aid Lawyers (‘YLAL’) has been made aware of an informal announcement by the SRA and Kaplan (who are responsible for…

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