Insightful evidence from @niminally@LawCentres & @jo_under_wood@Shelter to @CommonsJustice committee on legal aid. Issues of recruitment shortages for the sector, digital access problems, advice deserts, and increasing need, all in context of limited scope of #legalaid
Those #LegalAid lawyers really are a competitive bunch! The Great Legal Aid Quiz as part of #LAPGConf21 is heating up. Career-long peer relationships are being destroyed as they strive to be crowned legal aid brain of the year! Sorry!
Powerful & moving testimony at today’s Westminster Commission on Legal Aid. Nobody should have to go through such a difficult process without support - access to justice for all is vital #LAPGConf21
"This is a lonely, lonely journey," a mother seeking info about state failures that lead to her son's death says. Details harrowing journey to get funding & used £ borrowed for her son's funeral to fund barrister. Without @INQUEST_ORG we would never have done it.
Coming soon… The very first #LondonLegalGivingWeek launches on 24th November. Join us to help raise vital funds for free frontline legal advice services who are facing devastating shortfalls in funding as a result of the ongoing pandemic.
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Is a doctor who saves a life an activist doctor?
Lawyers are there to apply the law and ensure that *everybody, including the most vulnerable*, can access their rights.
This is British justice
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A whopping 95% of respondents (thus far) have reported that one or more factors have negatively impacted on their health& well being during lockdown. A further 42% have been unable to access resources to help with this. Pls share& complete. We need as many responses as possible
@londonlegal@RobbieRinder The fundamental need for free legal advice is so eloquently put by @RobbieRinder “There are no human rights without access to justice. Your capacity to have access to justice cannot be, should not be, must not be, based on your capacity to pay” 🙌
A message from Judge Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder about the London #legalwalk#10xChallenge on Monday 5th October 👣https://t.co/YpSkMiDK84
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