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The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been consultating on its new Solicitors Qualifying Examination ('SQE').
SQE will be the new way for people to qualify as solicitors. It will be introduced by Autumn 2021.
Welcome to our update of the latest legal aid and access to justice news from July 2019.
Celebrating 70 years of legal aid: On 30 July 1949 the Legal Aid and Advice Act received royal assent, creating the legal aid scheme. The 30 July 2019 therefore saw the 70th anniversary of this important step in the campaign for access to justice. In order to celebrate and highlight the significance of this milestone, the Justice Alliance organised a large gathering outside the Ministry of Justice.
Toby Perkins, MP for Chesterfield visited Derbyshire Law Centre on 6 August 2019.
Toby said about his visit:
Rupa Huq MP for Ealing Central and Acton visited Ealing Law Centre on 9 August 2019:
The morning was spent discussing legal aid.
Ealing Law Centre said:
Welcome to our update of the latest legal aid and access to justice news from June 2019.
Lloyd Russell Moyle, MP for Kemptown & Peacehaven, visited Brighton Advice Centre on 1 August 2019.
You can read about Lloyd's visit on Andy Winter's blog - Andy is Chief Executive of Brighton Housing Trust.
Lloyd said about his visit:
On 31 July 2019, Kate Green MP visited Greater Manchester Law Centre to learn more about early legal advice.
Kate said of her visit:
Informative and useful morning visiting @gmlawcentre as part of #takeyourmptowork campaign to learn about effect of legal aid cuts and priorities for advice work.
Welcome to our update of the latest legal aid and access to justice news from June 2019.
As part of our #TakeYourMPToWork Campaign, we've been asking MPs to tell us why they think that early legal advice is important:
On 25 July 2019, Helen Hayes MP visited Centre 70. Centre 70 is a London charity specialising in legal advice on Debt, Welfare Benefits, Housing, Utilities Debt and Student Finance. They also have a counselling service.
Helen is MP for Dulwich and West Norwood.
She told us why early legal advice is important:
