All my days: Pippa Banham
Pippa Banham is a trainee solicitor and Justice First Fellow at Suffolk Law Centre (SLC), which is one of the UK’s newest law centres. She is due to qualify in…
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Fiona Bawdon
Fiona is a LegalVoice comment and commissioning editor. She is a London-based legal affairs journalist, campaigner and researcher
Fighting immigration law advice deserts
Around 500 staff and volunteers at organisations offering support to migrants have undertaken Refugee Action’s ground-breaking online immigration law training. Its aim is to increase the number of accredited advisers…
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‘There is a clear connection between unresolved legal problems and ill health’
UCL is conducting research into how social welfare law problems can damage health, and how doctors and lawyers can work together to help make people better. Fiona Bawdon explains. Fiona…
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Windrush generation: ‘The PM can’t say she wasn’t warned.’
In my 2014 ‘Chasing Status’ report, I called them ‘Surprised Brits’. Today, they are known as the Windrush Generation, and thanks to the tireless work of Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman,…
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Second cohort of Justice First Fellows graduate
The second cohort of nine Justice First Fellows graduated from the scheme earlier this month, after completing their legal training and qualifying as solicitors. The fellowship scheme was launched in…
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Legal Aid Agency in ‘denial’ over flawed digital billing scheme
A year after it was rolled out, problems with CCMS continue unabated. Fiona Bawdon reports Legal Aid Agency delays and continuing problems with its ‘disastrous’ digital application and billing scheme…
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KRW Law: Belfast firm making waves on both sides of Irish Sea
The families of those killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings turned to Belfast based KRW Law because ‘they were unable to find a local firm to take their case’…
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In praise of ‘activist human rights lawyers’
Liberty director hits back at government demonisation of profession, by Fiona Bawdon Liberty director Martha Spurrier warned government ministers ‘who put a toe out of line’ that ‘activist human rights…
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LAPG conference report: Pride and embarrassment
Two Legal Aid Agency-related issues dominated debate among delegates at the Legal Aid Practitioners Group’s 2016 conference: the Legal Aid Agency’s controversial ’embarrassment clause’; and continuing problems with its…
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Disadvantaged defendants and torn prosecutors: the impact of falling legal aid eligibility in the magistrates court
Growing numbers of unrepresented magistrate court defendants are putting extra strain on prosecutors, and being disadvantaged by a court process designed for professionals, according to research by the charity Transform…
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