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Editorial: We are working to ensure access to justice during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond
Description: Carol Storer - author
Carol Storer (view page)
on May 2020
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The impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on those needing advice and representation has been immense.
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2020COVID-19access to adviceaccess to justicelegal professionlegal aid
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Mass surveillance and the NHS contact tracing app
Description: Stephen Cragg QC - author
Stephen Cragg QC (view page)
on May 2020
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If plans for the NHS app materialise, what are people letting themselves in for?
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2020NHSCOVID-19Human rightsData protection
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Potential lack of advice for tenants facing possession hearings attracts condemnation
Description: LAG
Legal Action Group (view page)
on May 2020
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Possession proceedings are due to resume on 25 June, but it is unclear if people faced with losing...
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2020Housing--Possession proceedingsHousing possession court duty schemesCOVID-19
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Residents should not be left to pay for remedies to unsafe tower block cladding
Ritu Saha (view page)
on May 2020
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Over the course of 2018, I realised how few rights I had as a leaseholder in a dangerous home.
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2020HousingdisrepairGrenfell Towerfire safetyHousing--Long leaseholders
Description: John Emmett O'Malley
In memory of John Emmett O’Malley (29 March 1939–1 April 2020)
on May 2020
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John was a co-founder of the first Law Centre, North Kensington Law Centre, in 1970.
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Description: Affordable Advice screen image launch event 25 February 2020 (photo Laura Shimili...
Organisations team up to provide family law guidance and advice for litigants-in-person
on May 2020
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Resolution and Law for Life launched a new service in February 2020 that aims to help...
Tags Family and Children
Description: Lockdown Lawyers updated OFC
LAG publishes poetry anthology in aid of Law Centres Network
Description: LAG
Legal Action Group (view page)
on May 2020
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This month sees LAG’s publication of Lockdown Lawyers.
Tags Legal Action - Jun 2020COVID-19Lockdown Lawyers
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High Court upholds challenge to ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy
Description: Sasha Rozansky - author
Sasha Rozansky (view page)
on May 2020
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The court was provided with evidence that the NRPF condition has trapped thousands of families in...
Tags Asylum and ImmigrationMigrant support
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