Tag: Legal aid

Young lawyers urge MPs to visit ‘legal aid frontline’
Two MPs have already planned visits

High Court: Law Society secures win in legal aid row with government
Chancery Lane took action over failure to implement recommended fee rises

Access to justice: how can we do more?
Cardiff University law student Sophia McKenna explores how we can develop effective solutions

Legal aid: Law Society wins permission to challenge government in High Court
'Significant and positive step forward', says president Lubna Shuja

Nearly two-thirds of lawyers believe access to justice has worsened over the last decade
Legal aid cuts to blame, research finds

Legal aid: Law Society seeks permission to challenge government in High Court
Row over fees looks set to escalate

‘Our criminal justice system is quite literally being held together by duct tape — action is needed now’
Fundamental change is required to avoid a 'complete collapse', warns solicitor advocate Ben Brown

Law Society warns aspiring criminal solicitors they’re ‘highly unlikely’ to earn ‘reasonable’ income following ‘real-terms cut’ on legal aid fees
Government chooses not follow 15% minimum rise recommendation

‘The day the bar died’: Criminal barristers react to legal aid deal
Disappointment, frustration and calls for collective unity

Striking criminal barristers to vote on government legal aid offer
£54 million pay package follows 'constructive talks'

Criminal justice: A system on its knees
With wigs and gowns on picket lines outside Crown courts around England and Wales, Liverpool Uni law student Jakob Fletcher-Stega makes the argument for increased legal aid fees and asserts the necessity of the ongoing strike

Barrister performs guitar solo to raise awareness for criminal bar strikes
🎵 Save legal aid, magna carta was made to protect people like you 🎵

Deterred from justice: The criminal bar’s darkest hour
Years of underfunding has created a retention and recruitment crisis, writes aspiring barrister Edmund Mawoko

I earned £7k more as a barista, says criminal barrister
Garden Court North's Rosalind Burgin makes depressing pay comparison as full-blown strike action looms

Have I Got News For You slammed for ‘insulting’ strike gag
Criminal barristers fail to see funny side of Twitter post

Criminal barristers to vote on ‘uninterrupted strike action’
Move would be an escalation of alternating weeks of action adopted since late June

Anonymous criminal barrister posts breakdown of entire year’s earnings on Twitter — less than £20,000
£19.5k BEFORE chambers rent, insurance and practising certificate

Criminal bar strike in pics 📸
Barristers join picket lines across the country

Criminal barristers to strike as row over legal aid escalates
Walkouts from next Monday