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Tag Archive: legal aid
The topsy turvy world of government thinking
Huge levels of unpaid fines and cuts in legal aid (again).
Legal aid madness
I got a communication from the Legal Aid Board today. Or rather I should say the Legal Services Commission East Midlands Regions. They apparently wanted to tell me that a certificate for a client had been cancelled. Well I could have told them that. We stopped doing legal aid work back in 1999 and I…
Legal aid – death by a thousand cuts
In this country we have a proud tradition of justice. In 1949 the then Labour government (at a time of great economic stringency, as it was just after the war) set up the legal aid system. No one, it was said, should be denied access to justice or legal help because they cannot afford it….
The Law Centres Federation – Charity of the month (June)
My charity of the month for June is the Law Centres Federation, which may not be an organisation you have ever heard of. However no doubt you will have heard of Law Centres. Some of you may have used one. The Law Centres Federation is the organisation which supports and promotes them. Law Centres are…
Housing law reform and legal aid
There have been a lot of announcements recently from the government about housing law reform, and what they intend to do in the private rented sector. Whether any of these proposals will actually come to pass is not certain. However I (along with many others) am concerned about the approach taken by this government, both…
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Ben Reeve Lewis Newsround #25
[Ben Reeve Lewis is getting depressed by the rising homelessness figures ...] Last Friday morning, whilst I was beavering away at work preparing for that afternoon’s council event, ‘landlord’s day’, I received an email from Frazzy with a link to an article in London’s free newspaper Metro. She titled her email to me “Homelessness is…