legal aid Articles

Students with the potential to be incredible solicitors, barristers and judges are being blocked from entering the legal profession. That needs to change, writes Nick Thomas-Symonds MP Open access to the legal profession for anyone with the ability, skill and...

If the devil is in the detail, then the new Tory right to buy policy announced today is positively satanic. It is well known that the 1980s policy reduced the amount of social housing, and others will detail how this will do the same. I give few different initial...

Everywoman Safe Everywhere, Labour’s commission on women’s safety, began its work under my leadership in November 2011. Its aim was to investigate concerns that government policy changes and budget cuts were disproportionately affecting women not just economically,...

The much-criticised Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into force on 1 April 2013. LASPO was devised in an effort to cut the £2bn annual legal aid bill by £350m a year, through wide sweeping and substantial cuts to the provision of civil...