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Sue James is CEO of LAG. She was previously director and housing solicitor at Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre and a founding trustee at Ealing Law Centre. She won the outstanding achievement award at the 2017 LALYs.
The cost of living increase will inevitably result in more legal need but we have a justice system that is collapsing in on itself.
Sue James reports on the wonderful 20th anniversary Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards, which took place on 12 July.
The rent reform white paper has been described as once-in-a-generation reform of housing law – but as with all such things, the devil is in the...
It feels very much consumer-driven rather than rights-driven, and fails to address the unaffordability of most rented properties.
It was great to be invited to speak at Greater Manchester Law Centre’s Mind the Gap event.
Mind the Gap, which took place on 19 May, aimed to galvanise support across the North West around access to justice.
Legal aid has been at the centre of LAG’s work since its earliest days.
The Archbishop of Canterbury didn’t hold back when he stated that the decision to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is ‘subcontracting out our...
It’s 50 years since Erin Pizzey opened the first refuge for ‘battered wives’ in Chiswick, west London. The language we use to...
In February, Legal Action Group celebrated 50 years since its incorporation, at a wonderful party at Gatehouse Chambers attended by its founders and...