The government’s proposed £350 million legal aid cuts will be a false economy, according to an report by the King’s College London. The report, Unintended Consequences: the cost of the more…

On September 15th 2011 the prime minister stood in Liberty Square in Benghazi and told the crowd of Libyans: ‘Your friends in Britain and France will stand with you as more…

Ahead of MPs debating the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill this afternoon a group of 24 national charities including Mind, Scope, the RNIB, Mencap, and Leonard Cheshire more…

For much of the Legal Services Commission’s 12-year life, legal aid lawyers have fired vitriol – some of it fair, much of it not – at the Commission and its more…

Cutting legal aid is ‘a false economy’, according to the report of  a panel of three non lawyer experts . Unequal before the law? the future of legal aid sets more…

Over half of voluntary and community organisations have had to shut services over the last year and a similar number expected further closures over the next year