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Legal aid news update – 30 July 2014
30 July marked the 65th anniversary of legal aid, as the Legal Advice and Assistance Act 1949 was enacted on 30 July…
Legal Aid Update: Training notes
On 11 June we ran a seminar to update members on some of the key changes brought about under the Legal Aid, Sentencing…
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…
JCHR JR report
On 30 April 2014 the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) – a cross-party parliamentary committee composed of MPs and peers –…