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News from LAPG conference
YLAL recently contributed to the annual conference of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group. Committee member, Simao Paxi-Cato reports back on what happened:…
Website problems
We are currently experiencing some problems with our website. We hope to have these resolved as soon as possible and apologise in…
YLAL response to LETR
This week YLAL has submitted a response to the Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility paper which forms a part of the Legal…
Legal aid levy a regressive tax
On 2 July the Ministry of Justice finished their consultation on the proposed Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme (SLAS). Details of the Government’s…
APPG meeting 11 July
There will be a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid in Parliament on Wednesday 11 July 2012 starting…
LALY awards 2012
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the LAPG Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards. YLAL is pleased to announce that our…
SRA decides on min salary
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has decided that it will not oblige firms and organisations to pay trainee solicitors anything more than…
Essay competition to win free LPC place
The partner magazine to the Solicitors’ Journal “Young Lawyer” has teamed up with legal training provider NCLT to offer one of their…
End of specialist support?
YLAL has responded to the Legal Services Commission (LSC) consultation on the future of the Specialist Support Service. The LSC aims to…
Access to profession
Professor Hilary Sommerlad, School of Law, University of Leicester is looking for volunteers to take part in a piece of research on…