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Legal aid

July 2024

  • Labour Cuts

    We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

    Emma Vincent Miller, Catherine Fletcher, Minesh Parekh, Rachel Clarke and Anonymous
    After years of austerity, the government’s plans imply another reduction in funding that public services simply cannot take

June 2024

  • Samira Shackle

    The prison and court systems are on the verge of collapse. Why aren’t Labour or the Tories talking about it?

    Samira Shackle
  • Alex Chalk

    Lawyers take lord chancellor to high court over legal aid fees

March 2024

  • Sir John Jonah Walker-Smith and his wife, Aileen

    Sir Jonah Walker-Smith obituary

    Barrister who assisted in the Oz trial of 1971 and joined the libertarian Doughty Street chambers

February 2024

  • Kojo Koram

    The manifesto Britain needs
    Britain’s reputation as the home of the ‘rule of law’ is in tatters. Labour can fix it with these three pledges

    Kojo Koram
    Legalising cannabis, removing racial bias from convictions and reforming legal aid will help repair the damage of Tory misrule, says lecturer Kojo Koram

January 2024

  • A port in Northern Ireland

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Dublin not expecting EU objections to new trade rules for Northern Ireland – as it happened

    Irish foreign minister says he does ‘not anticipate any particular difficulties in respect of the EU side’

November 2023

  • A barrister transports files, documents and reference books in a court trolley at the Supreme Court in Brisbane

    Australian legal aid at risk of turning people away unless $484m extra funding provided

    Exclusive: report commissioned by National Legal Aid says funds needed to prevent threat of ‘supply failure’, while means testing leaves ‘large cohort’ in need

September 2023

  • Alex Chalk

    Charity warns Alex Chalk to act over legal aid for immigration and asylum

    Lord chancellor failing to carry out duty on provision of services in England and Wales, says Public Law Project

July 2023

  • Members of the Criminal Bar Association outside the supreme court in London in 2006.

    Scheme to help domestic abuse survivors has been hobbled by legal aid cuts

  • Nicole Jacobs

    Watchdog criticises family courts’ handling of domestic abuse

  • Silhouette of two people talking

    Legal aid cuts denying vulnerable women access to justice, says thinktank

  • Lubna Shuja, president of the Law Society

    Boosted UK legal aid rates ‘not enough’ to deal with Rwanda asylum cases

June 2023

  • Kirsty Brimelow protests with other barristers in Manchester outside Manchester crown courts

    Backlog of adult rape cases in courts in England and Wales hits record high

  • Owen Jones

    So this is British justice: Boris Johnson gets legal aid and a mother of three on the breadline doesn’t

    Owen Jones

May 2023

  • Suella Braverman

    Braverman bill could lead to 3,000 asylum seekers being deported a month

    Exclusive: leaked documents on illegal migration bill also say legal aid fees will need to rise in order to ensure legal cover

March 2023

  • Business Insolvencies 13 year high, Slough, Berkshire, UK - 31 Jan 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock (13748846a) The former Debenhams shop that became a Factory Outlet has now closed down. Business insolvencies have hit a 13 year high. Almost 22k businesses closed during 2022. Factors including the impact of Covid-19, online shopping, inflation, production costs, staff costs, and rising fuel prices are some of the reasons why. Although Slough is going through a big regneration, the number of businesses that have closed down is remarkable Business Insolvencies 13 year high, Slough, Berkshire, UK - 31 Jan 2023

    Why access to legal aid is impossible for those who need it most

    Letter: Thanks to a terrible piece of legislation passed a decade ago, hundreds of thousands of people do not receive the early legal advice that should be their right, says Willy Bach
  • The Royal Courts of Justice in London

    UK mother unlawfully denied legal aid in case against abusive ex, court rules

    MoJ guidance found to be wrong after woman trying to enforce custody agreement denied funds as son no longer lived with her

    • Domestic abuse survivor takes UK justice ministry to court over legal aid

    • ‘It makes me want to cry’: inside crumbling courts as judges wrestle with rise in rent eviction cases

    • Ministers face legal battle with criminal solicitors over legal aid

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