Category Archives: News

Cut Price Justice

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Anna Morris explains why the legal profession and the public must unite to oppose the government’s attack on legal aid If you stand by the Royal Courts of Justice this morning and listen, hard, you might be able to hear … Continue reading →

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Legal Aid reforms will reduce access to justice

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

Liz Davies writes to the Independent on Sunday on the risks to justice of the proposed reforms to legal aid. Lord Woolf and others are right to warn that Chris Grayling’s proposals on legal aid could lead to miscarriages of … Continue reading →

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Our First Podcast

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

We have just made our first podcast! It’s voiced by Rajeev Thacker and is a short discussion about the Supreme Court decision in Salvesen v Riddell on Article 1, Protocol 1. Let us know if you have any comments, and … Continue reading →

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The Future of Legal Aid – Why we Need to Act Now

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

Connor Johnston, co-chair of the Young Legal Aid Lawyers, discusses the latest threats to legal aid On 23 April 2013 I gave a short talk at the Westminster Policy Forum on the “future market for publicly funded legal services”. The … Continue reading →

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Reporting from the Commonwealth Law Conference

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

Richard Harvey, Head of Garden Court International, writes about his fascinating trip to the 18th Commonwealth Law Conference in South Africa. I have just returned from a week representing Garden Court at the Commonwealth Law Conference in Cape Town. I … Continue reading →

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Fourth pillar of the welfare state

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

Liz Davies writes in the Morning Star on the implications of legal aid cuts On April 1 cuts of £350 million from the legal aid budget of £2.1 billion came into effect. As of now, there is no free legal … Continue reading →

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Leslie Thomas

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

Leslie Thomas features in the latest issue of Black Mental Health UK’s The Soloution magazine. The latest edition includes a feature on the Leslie’s legal career which has included historic cases such as the case of Wayne Douglas and the case of Ibrahim Sey. Describing his … Continue reading →

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Syria’s legal fight amid the gunfire

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Forced to flee the country after standing up to Assad, Syria’s radical lawyers are now working to protect human rights in rebel-held areas. But the longer conflict continues, the harder it will be to keep progressive voices heard, reports Taimour … Continue reading →

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Which human rights would you discard?

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

As the late Lord Bingham said in 2009  (see link to his lecture): ‘The rights protected by the Convention and the Act deserve to be protected because they are, as I would suggest, the basic and fundamental rights which everyone … Continue reading →

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Crime, Rehabilitation and the Right to Private Life: where should the “Bright line” fall?

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

Shereener Browne analyses the recent decision in T, R (on the application of) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester & Ors and its impact on employment law. In 1974, the passing into law of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act saw … Continue reading →

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