Legal Aid

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24 May 2016

Has the time come for contingency fees?

Is it time to head straight for contingency fees without passing through the intermediary stage of fixed recoverable costs in non-personal injury work, asks Kerry Underwood

18 May 2016

Bar Council: Access to justice should be enshrined in statute

Representative body calls for enhanced court fees to be removed ahead of Queen's Speech

16 May 2016

Walking for justice in London

Charities' needs have grown as resources have shrunk, says Master of the Rolls

10 May 2016

Pro bono: Making better lawyers

Yasmin Waljee OBE and Michael Davison explain to Laura Clenshaw the importance of a pro bono culture in firms - but stress why free advice will never replace a properly funded legal aid system

10 May 2016

Will Khan forsake the profession now he has the keys to the city?

The new mayor has promised to be pro-business, but will he be pro-lawyer, asks John van der Luit-Drummond

4 May 2016

APIL: Government plans to end 'trivial' injury claims 'utterly groundless'

Vulnerable people are being targeted in 'a game of numbers', says Neil Sugarman

27 Apr 2016

Limiting access to justice is 'unfair', says public

Government ministers risk eroding basic Magna Carta rights with personal injury plans

26 Apr 2016

From the archive: April 25, 1903

No opinion in matters connected with the criminal law is more worthy of attention than that of Sir Harry Poland, but his letter to the Times of the 21st of April on the Poor Prisoners' Defence Bill is hardly convincing.