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Catherine Baksi is a freelance legal affairs journalist.
While government ministers glibly talk of social welfare lawyers being paid £200 an hour, back in the real world, Catherine Baksi finds a...
People of modest means are increasingly being priced out of the chance to become legal aid lawyers. What more can firms do to ensure that this field...
Lawyers at the Legal Aid Practitioners Group’s 2015 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards in early July were feeling the heat, for more reasons...
The Legal Aid Agency has spent two years and millions of pounds developing a digital billing system that is slower and more cumbersome than the paper...
Exceptional case funding was touted as a safety net which would protect vulnerable clients. What has emerged in practice is very different. Even the...
With a rise in homelessness and an acute housing shortage, demand for housing advice is increasing, but the number of cases being done on legal aid is...
The murder more than 20 years ago of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence marked the start of an unlikely and enduring relationship between a young defence...
In his first interview since the al-Sweady inquiry cleared British troops of wrongdoing, Phil Shiner says he has nothing to apologise for, and accuses...
2014 was a bumper year for high court challenges over government moves to cut legal aid, and this year seems set to follow in similar vein. Catherine...
The closure of the south London criminal defence firm has been shrouded in confusion, claim and counterclaim. Freelance legal affairs journalist...