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Steve Hynes is a freelance consultant and writer. He was previously director of LAG. He is a well-known commentator in the written and broadcast media on legal aid and access to justice issues.
Bailiffs have been around for over a thousand years of legal history. While the official term to describe them is now ‘enforcement agent’,...
Legal Action’s main issue with the government’s analysis of the impact of tribunal fees is that it is based on the cases that get into the...
The establishment of the Greater Manchester Law Centre is due in large part to this determined and indefatigable campaigner.
After only two years in the job, the chief executive of the Law Society (LS), Catherine Dixon, has resigned over the lack of progress in reforming the...
The legal academic and writer died unexpectedly in December.
The Care Act 2014 was supposed to usher in a new era of rights to protect vulnerable adults and their carers, but there is a mismatch between the...
It still feels startling to recall that just under a year ago, the government capitulated in its battle with criminal legal aid firms to introduce the...
The past year has seen a couple of ‘unusual incidents’ in the political world.
The past few Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) conferences were graced with the presence of Hugh Barrett, then head of commissioning at the Legal...