The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has proposed scrapping the minimum salary for trainee solicitors. Young Legal Aid Lawyers is deeply concerned about the proposal and how it will impact on access to and social mobility within the profession.
Kings College have published a report Unintended Consequences: the cost of the Government’s Legal Aid Reforms, analysing the knock-on costs to the forthcoming legal aid cuts. The report argues that the Goverment has significantly overestimated the money that it will save by cutting legal aid.
Please read this excellent speech by Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, Vice-President of the Law Society, recounting the historical origins of legal aid and warning of the damage that will be caused by the forthcoming legal aid cuts.
The International Women's Day summit will take place on 8 March 2012. In connection with the summit the Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society are seeking the views of junior lawyers on issues affecting women lawyers.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill is due to be debated by the House of Lords on Monday 21 November 2011. We have prepared a briefing for members to send onto peers to ask them to attend the debate.
Justice for All have a quick and simple way for you to message your MP to encourage them to oppose the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.
Journalist Jon Robins had launched an excellent new legal website aimed at non-lawyers. The site aims to shine "a light on those parts of the justice system that don’t often see the light of day in the mainstream media".
