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Fiona Bawdon is a journalist; comms consultant to We Belong; co-founder of the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards; and director of Impact – Law for Social Justice: www.impactsocialjustice.org. This is the first in an occasional series of columns discussing social justice campaigning.
Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year supporters and previous winners explain what makes the awards so special to them.
A few days before last year’s LALY awards ceremony, a housing solicitor tweeted that the event was a ‘beacon of hope and happiness’.
The government announced plans to roll out its ‘right to rent’ scheme nationally in typically bullish language. As well as forcing...
Marcia Willis-Stewart has handled some of the biggest cases of recent times – de Menezes, Duggan, Hillsborough – but the one that sticks...