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Published in: openJusticeWhy legal aid matters and what you can do about itCuts to legal aid are causing widespread injustice and likely costing the taxpayer more. The government are...
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Published in: HomeFat cats or poor hacks? Why criminal barristers are refusing to work – and why you should careBusting the myths about the criminal bar.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWindrush and Legal Aid: how free legal representation could have avoided a national scandalMany migration decisions are wrong - but since legal aid for such cases was scrapped by the LASPO Act 2012, few...
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Published in: openJusticeDo we have a right to justice?As new research reveals the devastating impact of legal aid cuts, Labour is considering not only reversing some of...
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Published in: openJusticeThe rule of law fights backThe recent Supreme Court decision on employment tribunal fees is a victory for our constitution. This is the rule of...
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Published in: openJusticeA poor track record and a worrying manifesto on civil rightsAfter the surpising 2017 general election, opposition parties have a golden opportunity to stand up for the rights...
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Published in: openJusticeThe quiet revolution that could transform livesMost people can't afford a transcript from their own trial even when it's the only thing that could prove their...
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Published in: openJusticeIt's about time our judiciary started to reflect the people it servesA senior judiciary that so clearly fails to reflect the ethnic, gender and social composition of the nation...
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Published in: openJusticeDraconian cuts to legal aid for prisoners found to be unlawful by Court of AppealA rare thing: some good news for prisoners and legal aid.
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Published in: openJusticeDo fewer lawyers and judges of colour mean more prisoners of colour?When professionals within the criminal justice system cannot relate to the ordinary people that come before them,...
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Published in: openJusticeHow safe is the legal aid 'safety net'?When the government decimated legal aid, they created a ‘safety net’ for human rights related cases. Has the scheme...
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Published in: openJusticeHope for access to justice?Against a backdrop of cuts and closures, the Greater Manchester Law Centre opened its doors last year - an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK government wants to move justice online - but can computers perform essentially human functions?Online courts may replace justice, empathy and judgment with compromise and efficiency.
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Published in: openJusticeWhen no good deed goes unpunishedFamilies in the UK that open their doors to child relatives fleeing the camps of Calais are being penalised by...
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Published in: openJusticeAsylum seekers are left destitute and homeless due to a lack of legal aidOne of the least reported devastations caused by government legal aid cuts has been on asylum seekers. Vulnerable...
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Published in: openJusticeJustice - open to all, like the Ritz hotelThe government has committed to reviewing cuts to legal aid and the fight for justice and government accountability...
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Published in: openJusticeCan technology save access to justice?In the tsunami of austerity cuts, technology provides one of the few possible islands from which we can rebuild...
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Published in: openJusticeLegal aid cuts are a major human rights issueAmnesty found that the recent sharp cuts to civil legal aid have hurt not only those people already in the most...
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Published in: openJusticeHungry, homeless and in need of a legal aid lawyerGovernment plans to introduce a discriminatory test for legal aid were thwarted earlier this year. This is why that...
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Published in: openJusticeCrowdfunding and access to justiceShould members of the public make up the access to justice deficit?
