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Ollie Persey is a public law barrister at Garden Court Chambers. He is a former co-chair of Young Legal Aid Lawyers.
Expanding the YLAL network into Wales.
For the legal profession as a whole, the ramifications have been severe and, predictably, those at the junior end have been heavily impacted.
The daily grind for legal aid lawyers isn’t glamorous, which is probably why there hasn’t been a prime-time drama made about it (yet).
Mentors – whether formal or informal – can act as invaluable guides along the course of this rough terrain.
We have turned our minds to the means test that determines financial eligibility for legal aid, something with which YLAL members will be very...
#TakeYourMPtoWork is our first big legal aid campaign, which we are running in partnership with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid.
It was with excitement that, on 20 May 2019, we took the helm of YLAL as a group of three co-chairs.