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Criminal barristers ACCEPT government’s £15 million legal aid offer

52% 👍 48% 👎

Jun 12 2018 10:42am
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Bar suspends legal aid protest escalation following £15 million government offer

Barristers will continue to refuse new publicly-funded cases

May 25 2018 1:08pm
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Ministry of Justice accused of lying over ‘explosive’ criminal courts report

As MPs vote against reversing legal aid changes

May 9 2018 3:46pm
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Legal aid row: ‘Go back to the drawing board’, Labour tells government ahead of today’s Commons debate

Over 100 chambers now refusing to take on new legal aid cases

May 8 2018 11:03am
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Legal aid row: ‘Sit down and talk with us’, top QCs tell government

Nearly 100 chambers are now refusing to take new publicly-funded cases

Apr 24 2018 9:01am
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‘The system is desperate, as are we’: Criminal barristers to REFUSE new work in protest to legal aid cuts

Decision taken with ‘heavy hearts’

Mar 29 2018 1:37pm
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‘The financial anxiety was overwhelming’: Rocketing law school debts and poor salaries make legal aid work unsustainable for junior lawyers

New damning research

Mar 15 2018 9:09am
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Lawyers lambast country’s housing law ‘mess’, as death toll from Grenfell fire confirmed at 71

New legislation is needed, Bristol and Kent academics conclude

Nov 16 2017 3:14pm
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The junior bar is shrinking amid legal aid cuts, and pro bono isn’t the answer

Free advice ‘will never be enough’, ex-judge says as National Pro Bono Week begins

Nov 6 2017 11:31am
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Justice Secretary reveals legal aid review is on its way — just one day after government confirms further cuts

As Secret Barrister condemns plans in devastating tweets

Oct 25 2017 11:25am
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Young Legal Aid Lawyers: We cannot argue working in legal aid isn’t difficult, but don’t quit

Group issues rallying cry to students, in a response to an article by Legal Cheek’s Katie King

Oct 3 2017 3:01pm
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Law students are virtually barred from pursuing a career in legal aid anymore, unless they’re rich

74% say they’ve been put off the sector, I was one of them

Sep 27 2017 9:05am
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Commissioner ‘confident’ Labour-backed legal aid report, launched 100 days after Grenfell fire, will make it to the statute books

£400 million plan could revolutionise justice system

Sep 22 2017 3:20pm
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‘Don’t give up on a career in legal aid’ lawyers urge students, as government reveals firms doing publicly funded work has fallen by 20%

Cautious optimism the tide will turn

Sep 19 2017 1:56pm
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You can now do a training contract funded by Children in Need

Social welfare solicitor scheme offers more places than ever

Aug 14 2017 10:37am
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London law firm denies knowledge of advert for trainee solicitor job that pays just £10k

You’d earn double that in Aldi, and five times at other outfits

Aug 11 2017 3:18pm
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‘It should shame us all’: Why Charlie Gard’s parents were not entitled to legal aid

Government’s destruction of public funding budget takes spotlight

Jul 25 2017 11:50am
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Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year

Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards

Jul 6 2017 2:17pm
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‘They tried to get lawyers’: Devastating cuts to legal aid prevented Grenfell Tower residents accessing advice over safety concerns

Legal profession offers pro bono support to blaze victims

Jun 15 2017 12:08pm
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Tory manifesto: Legal aid doesn’t get a look-in… apart from pledge to ‘restrict’ it in cases against the armed forces

A pop at Leigh Day?

May 18 2017 2:38pm
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‘Ambulance chasing’ lawyer Phil Shiner declared bankrupt, weeks after he sold house to Middlesex University law lecturer daughter

Bethany Shiner and sister Leisha both used to work for their dad’s now defunct law firm

Mar 17 2017 11:29am
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More domestic violence victims to get legal aid, lawyers still have no praise for Liz Truss

Can she ever win?

Feb 23 2017 10:38am
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Careers

The life of a serious crime QC

From representing footballer John Terry to acting in the Hillsborough Inquests and the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry, there are few dull moments for Serjeants’ Inn’s Chris Daw QC

Feb 21 2017 1:02pm
First batch of ‘incredibly lucky’ sponsored legal aid trainees become solicitors

Three-quarters stay on

Feb 6 2017 11:26am
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