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Access to justice and challenging the legal aid cuts: where are we?

Posted on 1 October 20211 October 2021 by admin

Despite the legal aid system being introduced to provide equal access to the courts, over recent years, it has been, and is being, systematically eroded so as to make civil rights unenforceable, and generally only available to the rich.… Read More

Innocence is not a simple matter. My son would not have been acquitted without legal aid

Posted on 23 February 202224 February 2022 by admin

Susan Matthews, mother of Alfie Meadows and Secretary of Defend the Right to Protest joined the Justice Alliance #RelayForRights on Saturday 21 February 2015.… Read More

JUSTICE FOR ALL: Join the “Not the Global Law Summit” protests

Posted on 20 February 202224 February 2022 by admin

Defend the Right to Protest will be joining - civil liberties groups and human rights lawyers this weekend to walk from Runnymede to Westminster in defence of the legacy of Magna Carta and to highlight the hypocrisy of the government’s three-day event to mark the 800th anniversary of the historic document, the ‘Global Law Summit’.… Read More

LEGAL AID: Residence test found discriminatory and unlawful by High Court

Posted on 16 July 202116 July 2021 by admin

Under the residence test it is unlikely Jean Charles De Menezes family would have qualified for legal aid By Rachel Harger DtRtP and Paralegal at Bindmans LLP Yesterday on Tuesday 15th July 2014 the government’s draft legislation to introduce a residence test for legal aid was struck down by the High Court on the basis it is discriminatory and unlawful.… Read More

Why Care About Legal Aid? - Video

Posted on 8 April 20228 April 2022 by admin

The Justice Alliance has produced a fantastic short video laying out the arguments to keep up the fight for Legal Aid.… Read More

‘Grayling Day’ - Demo to Save Legal Aid

Posted on 25 February 2022 by admin

The Justice Alliance has called a demonstration against the sell-off of Legal Aid. The Justice Alliance has managed to bring together a significant section of lawyers, legal workers and barristers and have consistently spoken out against Grayling’s attacks on Legal Aid, so it’s well worth getting behind.… Read More

LEGAL AID CUTS: After historic strike - build support for the new petition

Posted on 17 January 202217 January 2022 by admin

The 6th Jan saw barristers and solicitors take strike action against legal aid cuts -the first action of its kind in history. … Read More

Susan Matthews on the Legal Aid Strike

Posted on 6 January 20226 January 2022 by admin

Today marked a first for protest: the first time in history that lawyers and solicitors had taken action together with the relatively modest step of refusing to attend court for half a day.… Read More

Strike for legal aid!

Posted on 6 January 20226 January 2022 by admin

Barristers and solicitors on strike this morning. Photo Credit: David Renton Barristers and solicitors are striking this morning against cuts to legal aid, for the first time in British history.… Read More

Direct Action for Legal Aid

Posted on 19 November 202119 November 2021 by admin

The Criminal Bar Association agreed this Saturday to take direct action to defend Legal Aid. This is an incredibly important response to an incredibly worrying threat and we will support the lawyers, barristers and legal workers in what they choose to do.… Read More