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In search of local justice Premium Content
Keith Wilding explains the difference Law Centres make to individual lives
05 December 2019 / Keith Wilding
Election 2019: the countdown Premium Content
In a short series in the run-up to the December election, Jon Robins does some policy filtering & number crunching
21 November 2019 / Jon Robins
Legal aid: a tool for justice
The government’s sledgehammer approach to legal aid benefits neither access to justice nor the public purse, says Geoffrey Bindman
14 November 2019 / Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC
Late payments: call for evidence
Civil law (non-family) barristers are waiting months, if not years, to be paid for work on legal aid high-cost cases, the Bar Council Remuneration Committee has said. 
06 November 2019
Justice in Wales pledge
The First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, this week pledged to bring forward all the recommendations within the scope of the Welsh Assembly that were made by the Commission on Justice in Wales report, led by former Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, published on 24 October. 
06 November 2019
Justice in Wales
Wales should have powers to appoint its own judges and run its own legal aid system, a major report chaired by former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, has concluded.
30 October 2019
Walking for justice
Lord Justice Haddon-Cave and Lord Justice Gross have led a cohort of fundraisers along the Thames to raise more than £19,000 for free legal advice services.
23 October 2019
Litigation without lawyers Premium Content

The small claims system is too complicated for non-lawyers & needs simplifying, says Peter Thompson QC

26 September 2019 / Peter Thompson KC
Public backs the criminal justice system
The FDA trade union, which represents lawyers in the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), has handed the prime minister nearly 900 letters from the public calling on him to save the UK’s criminal justice system.
14 August 2019
Write to Buckland
The Law Society is urging solicitors to write to the new Lord Chancellor about access to justice. 
14 August 2019
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Law reform ahead
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Online safety against serious harm
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Bullying & harassment at the Bar
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
The Sentencing Bill: Crime & punishment revisited
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
Changing faces
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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