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Walking for justice

23 October 2019
Issue: 7861 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Charities , Profession , Legal services
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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.

More than 200 legal professionals and friends took part, either walking or running, in the annual Walk the Thames challenge last week. The event is a half or full marathon, following the river through London and out to the Surrey countryside.

Nezahat Cihan, chief executive of the London Legal Support Trust (LLST), which organises the event, said: ‘Receiving the free legal advice they need makes a huge difference to people's lives, reducing debt, poverty and homelessness, and combatting discrimination and injustice. We, at LLST, ensure every pound raised goes as far as it can to help the most vulnerable people who need free legal advice.’

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NEWS
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
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
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
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
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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