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February 20, 2015

Be part of the action

On Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd and Monday 23rd February you can be part of legal aid campaigning on a national scale.  …

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February 16, 2015

APPG on legal aid on 13 Jan

All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid: breakfast meeting on 13 January 2015   Write up by YLAL member Phil Armitage  …

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February 8, 2015

YLAL is 10 event & survey

YLAL is 10 years old in 2015 This year will be our 10th birthday and we would like to mark the occasion…

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February 4, 2015

PAC report on civil legal aid

  The Public Accounts Committee has released a damning indictment of the Government’s cuts to civil legal aid.   The Committee conducted…

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February 2, 2015

Not the Global Law Summit

  This year it is the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. The Government is organising an event to mark this occasion…

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February 1, 2015

Labour plans for legal aid

On 30 January the Labour party announced three steps it would take on criminal legal aid if elected to govern this May….

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January 13, 2015

How competent are you?

New entrants to the law might soon be measured in a different way to see if they are up to the job…

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January 12, 2015

Legal aid news – 12 Jan 2015

· A further challenge to the government’s criminal legal aid reforms has been brought by the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association (LCCSA)…

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January 11, 2015

APG on legal aid: crime

The first meeting of the All Party Group on Legal Aid for 2015 will take place on Tuesday 13 January. More details…

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December 31, 2014

Take action: survey, fundraise

  The Government has announced it will go ahead with cuts to criminal legal aid. We reported about this here. The Criminal…

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