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Will awareness of food poverty bring about an understanding of inequality?
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Sue James
on Jun 2021
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If we begin with a right to food, maybe we can move towards a social bill of rights for housing,...
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2021povertyLegal Aid Agencycivil legal aidHousingLALY21Food povertyAccess to justice
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Queen’s speech: ‘building back’, but not necessarily better
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Sue James
on May 2021
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The background briefing notes to the Queen’s speech suggest a great deal of building –...
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2021Queen's speechPolice Crime Sentencing and Courts Billright to protestHousingjudicial reviewenvironmentCOVID-19
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Concern over EU Settlement Scheme continuity of residence provisions
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The AIRE Centre
on May 2021
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The AIRE Centre is very concerned about a little discussed aspect of the provisions of the EU...
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2021Asylum and Immigration
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An oral history of Law Centres – exciting new project at Oxford University
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Dr Marie Burton
on May 2021
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‘Enhancing Democratic Habits: an oral history of the Law Centres movement’ seeks to...
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2021Law Centres Network
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In memory of Nony Ardill
on May 2021
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A tribute to the life of Nony Ardill by Diane Astin
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2021Nony Ardill
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Make access to food a legal right
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Legal Action Group
on May 2021
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We urge you to sign Fans Supporting Foodbanks’ petition demanding an enforceable human right...
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Legal advice services should allow for the complexity of people’s social welfare problems
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Sue James
on Apr 2021
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People don’t turn up to advice services with a neatly packaged legal issue; their problems are...
Tags Legal Action - May 2021social welfare lawHousinglegal adviceaccess to justice
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Former Post Office workers’ theft, fraud and false accounting convictions quashed
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Legal Action Group
on Apr 2021
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Many of the convicted workers had served prison sentences, others had lost their jobs and their...
Tags Legal Action - May 2021Criminal LawMiscarriage of justice
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