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New posting: Crispin Passmore, head of the Community Legal Service at the Legal Services Commission, argues that joint tenders with local authorities are the future for social welfare law services

Read Law on the front line at risk in the Times, 29 April 2008, by LAG's communications and campaigns director, Jon Robins.

'All over the country, citizens advice bureaux and Law Centres^® are in financial meltdown. Can anything be done? ...'

Latest issue of Legal Action

News from May 2008 includes:

Law Society and LSC declare truce over unified contract

Cornwall pulls out of CLAN

LSC awards £5m in specialist support grants

UK asylum system 'not fit for purpose'

LSC publishes 'route map' for civil legal aid

Plus:

Read the news feature: Lacking in community spirit

Read Legal Action's latest editorial: Deal or no deal?

Read Jon Robins' feature: On the frontline of the credit crunch

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May 2008 (pdf: 459Kb)

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