March 12th 2015
Review legal aid to ensure access to justice: our response to JSC report
Today the House of Commons Justice Committee has published its report on the impact of reforms to civil legal aid on access to justice. The report condemns the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) handling o...
March 12th 2015
Equality safeguards in work are not 'out of date': Law Centre lawyers respond
News media today have been preoccupied with comments made by Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). In an interview recorded last autumn Mr Farage said that UKIP would scrap much...
February 26th 2015
Law Society president visits Hackney Community Law Centre
Today, 26th February, Hackney Community Law Centre has had the pleasure of welcoming Andrew Caplen, the president of the Law Society, which is the professional body for all solicitors in England an...
February 18th 2015
Coventry Law Centre awarded major grant for Early Action project
Today the Early Action Funders Alliance has announced three new grants in its joint Early Action Neighbourhood Fund programme (EANF), totalling £5.3m over five years. One of the three recipie...
February 4th 2015
If you must cut – cut smart, not just fast: our response to PAC report
If today’s report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) were an Agatha Christie story, it would have been titled ‘The Case of the Missing Knowledge’. Time and ...