Tag: Legal aid

Labour Party Legal aid

Labour conference round-up: Party says it will open law centres and raises concerns over digitisation of justice

Legal aid is a 'pillar of the welfare state', says shadow justice minister

Sep 26 2018 4:32pm

Bar suspends legal aid protest escalation following £15 million government offer

Barristers will continue to refuse new publicly-funded cases

May 25 2018 1:08pm

Ministry of Justice accused of lying over ‘explosive’ criminal courts report

As MPs vote against reversing legal aid changes

May 9 2018 3:46pm

Legal aid row: ‘Go back to the drawing board’, Labour tells government ahead of today’s Commons debate

Over 100 chambers now refusing to take on new legal aid cases

May 8 2018 11:03am
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Legal aid row: ‘Sit down and talk with us’, top QCs tell government

Nearly 100 chambers are now refusing to take new publicly-funded cases

Apr 24 2018 9:01am

Lawyers lambast country’s housing law ‘mess’, as death toll from Grenfell fire confirmed at 71

New legislation is needed, Bristol and Kent academics conclude

Nov 16 2017 3:14pm

The junior bar is shrinking amid legal aid cuts, and pro bono isn’t the answer

Free advice ‘will never be enough’, ex-judge says as National Pro Bono Week begins

Nov 6 2017 11:31am

Young Legal Aid Lawyers: We cannot argue working in legal aid isn’t difficult, but don’t quit

Group issues rallying cry to students, in a response to an article by Legal Cheek’s Katie King

Oct 3 2017 3:01pm

Law students are virtually barred from pursuing a career in legal aid anymore, unless they’re rich

74% say they’ve been put off the sector, I was one of them

Sep 27 2017 9:05am

You can now do a training contract funded by Children in Need

Social welfare solicitor scheme offers more places than ever

Aug 14 2017 10:37am

London law firm denies knowledge of advert for trainee solicitor job that pays just £10k

You'd earn double that in Aldi, and five times at other outfits

Aug 11 2017 3:18pm

‘It should shame us all’: Why Charlie Gard’s parents were not entitled to legal aid

Government’s destruction of public funding budget takes spotlight

Jul 25 2017 11:50am

Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year

Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards

Jul 6 2017 2:17pm