All Legal aid and access to justice articles – Page 48
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NewsSociety calls for taskforce to save ailing criminal justice system
Latest report from Chancery Lane illustrates shocking state of affairs.
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NewsFirm misses £1m costs after ‘unreasonable’ switch of funding method
Judge critical of London firm which changed to a CFA after beginning case on legal aid funding.
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NewsThousands to walk for access to justice
Largest-ever turnout expected for Monday’s London Legal Walk.
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News'Secret negotiations': discontent over criminal legal aid fees deal
Practitioner group says solicitors' representatives should have been involved in talks.
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NewsCriminal bar strikes deal on higher fees
The CBA is set to abandon its planned walkout on 1 July after agreeing to interim measures that will see prosecution and defence fees rise.
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NewsCourt closures: travel benchmark 'discriminates against disabled people'
MPs told 7.30am-7.30pm window will also disproportionately affect parents of children with special educational needs.
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News‘Key changes’ are on the way, criminal bar chair assures members
Association's Monday Message says that detailed proposals are ‘imminent’ following weekend talks with the CPS and MoJ.
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FeaturePicking up the pieces
Cash-strapped law centres are tottering under the growing burden of unmet legal need. Could lawyers do more to help? Eduardo Reyes reports
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News'Yes please!' MPs respond to work experience plea
Canny legal aid lawyers have tweeted MPs asking them to visit the frontline.
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NewsShamash merger: founder pledges to keep up legal aid fight
As Edwards Duthie Shamash becomes one of the largest high street firms in London, Gerald Shamash laments: ‘If we cannot have access to justice what kind of society are we?’
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NewsNews focus: tech challenge aiming high
The SRA is offering lawtech innovators £250,000 to help improve access to legal advice. But is technology the solution to this problem and has the regulator truly understood the issues involved?
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NewsFalconer: my 'regret' over Labour's effort to curb legal aid budget
Former lord chancellor says his government's actions led to public perception that all lawyers had their noses in the trough.
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NewsLegal aid heavyweights to merge
Steel & Shamash and Edwards Duthie will join forces to become Edwards Duthie Shamash on 3 June.
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NewsFinalists for legal aid 'Oscars' revealed
Practitioners celebrate nominations day after UN envoy highlights impact of cuts on society's poorest.
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NewsWriting on the wall: call for moratorium on court closures
Practitioners hold vigil as images of what has become of former sites are projected onto hoardings.
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FeatureGovernment ministers wrong to attack decision to grant legal aid to ‘Isis Bride’
Such public and political attacks show worrying disregard for the rule of law.
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NewsMPs tell Gauke to revisit legal aid for inquests
House of Commons justice select committee says inequality of arms is ‘fundamentally unfair’.
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NewsLitigation funder unveils inaugural recipients of £1m grant awards
Former lord chancellor Lord Falconer says the four recipients’ work sums up the dire state of access to justice.
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NewsBar chief calls for emergency courts shut-down
Criminal Bar Association’s message comes as prosecutors mull action over fees.