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November 9, 2020

Legal Aid News: September 2020

Welcome to our update of the latest legal aid and access to justice news from September 2020   YLAL Survey & Roundtable…

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November 8, 2020

Social mobility and COVID-19

We are grateful to YLAL member, Charlotte Simpson, for this original content piece. Pre-COVID considerations Diversity and Inclusion, or D&I, is increasingly…

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October 19, 2020

COVID Safety In Magistrates’ Courts

It has been reported that defence practitioners today staged a walk out of Bristol Magistrates’ Court over unsafe working conditions, including a…

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October 12, 2020

Does Judicial Diversity Matter?

We are grateful to Amany for this piece, who is a YLAL member and currently undertaking work experience to save up for…

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September 20, 2020

Legal Aid and access to justice post COVID-19

This piece was written by YLAL members Chloe Darcy and Ella Cornwall. How does Legal Aid need to be reformed in order…

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September 3, 2020

Legal Aid News: August 2020

Welcome to our update of the latest legal aid and access to justice news from August 2020.   HoC Justice Committee Report: Published…

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August 23, 2020

YLAL Statement on the Lord Chancellor’s Announcement regarding the Criminal Legal Aid Review

On 21 August 2020, the Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland QC, wrote to YLAL in response to our submission to the consultation on…

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August 14, 2020

Join the YLAL committee: applications now open!

Are you looking for a new challenge? YLAL has opportunities for dedicated members to join our national committee and contribute to helping…

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August 11, 2020

Regulations that threaten access to justice to be revoked

We are thrilled to report that the government has conceded that the new “fixed fees” for asylum and immigration legal aid work…

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August 7, 2020

Legal Aid News: July 2020

Welcome to our update of the latest legal aid and access to justice news from July 2020.   YLAL among the practitioner…

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