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Residence test – unlawful
The Administrative Court has declared that the proposed residence test for civil legal aid is discriminatory and unlawful, following a successful judicial…
House of Lords debates Bill
The Criminal Justice and Courts Bill: House of Lords Second Reading, 30 June 2014 YLAL member, Miranda Mourby, reports on the debate…
Challenge to exceptional funding
On 13 June 2014, judgment was handed down in the case of Gudanaviciene and others v Director of Legal Aid Casework [2014]…
Residence test vote for MPs
A vote is scheduled on Wednesday 9 July between 11am and 2 pm in the House of Commons on the Government’s proposed regulations to introduce…
APPG Legal Aid report: JR reform
APPG on Legal Aid meets to discuss the reforms to judicial review: An “ideological” attack on the rights of ordinary people by…
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…
Commons debate on JR 17 June
On 17 June 2014 the House of Commons will debate parts of the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill that relate to judicial…
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…
Justice Select Committee – LASPO
The Justice Select Committee (JSC) has set up an inquiry into the impact of the changes brought about by the Legal Aid,…
APPG – 8 April 2014
A breakfast meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid has been called for Tuesday 8 April 2014 at 8.30-10am…