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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…