Legal aid
Good quality, accessible publicly funded legal services are essential to ensuring access to justice. LAG campaigns for an improved legal aid scheme; promotes debate about the future of publicly funded legal services; responds to consultations on this issue; and provides information and training on legal aid matters to lawyers and advisers.
LAG Legal Aid Conference: Social welfare law matters
12 November 2010, London
This major conference will bring together practitioners from both the private and not for profit sectors to discuss the future of social welfare law services.
Magee Review
Read LAG's director Steve Hynes' article in Solicitors Journal, 23 March 2010:
The price of real legal aid
LAG's director Steve Hynes writes in the Guardian that legal aid is currently patchy and underfunded – to create a fair and comprehensive system, we must be prepared to pay: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/01/legal-aid.
Books
Making Legal Aid Work: a handbook for practitioners, Vicky Ling and Simon Pugh, April 2009, £40
The Justice Gap: whatever happened to legal aid?, Steve Hynes and Jon Robins, April 2009, £20
Legal Action
Legal aid round-up
Carol Storer aims to give legal aid practitioners an overview of important, topical matters of interest and concern.
Recent editorials
'Bridging the justice gap' - June 2009 (pdf: 38.7Kb)
'A criminal waste' - May 2009 (pdf: 68.1Kb)
'Protection of legal aid budgets overdue' - December 2008 (pdf: 73.9Kb)
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