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01 October 2025
Issue: 8133 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Legal services , Legal aid focus
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Lammy sets out priorities at Labour conference

Lord Chancellor David Lammy has confirmed his commitment to expanding intensive supervision courts and stood up for legal aid lawyers, in his speech to Labour Conference

Addressing party delegates in Liverpool this week, Lammy said the specialist courts would help offenders break free from a cycle of reoffending. He praised legal aid lawyers for ‘serving their communities for much less than they could earn elsewhere’.

Lammy used the speech to announce he will launch a ‘New English Law Panel’ to champion and promote English law and legal services across the world. The panel will be ‘uniting voices across the sector to promote English law worldwide as a gold standard that drives growth.’

Lammy also criticised his Conservative shadow Robert Jenrick MP for ‘smearing our independent judiciary from the pub on X’.

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