The Impact of Fees in the Tribunal
Fees for bringing claims in the employment tribunal were introduced in August 2013. Since then, the Ministry of Justice’s statistics have revealed a huge decline in the number of claims....
Access to Justice
Clinical Legal Education as an Access to Justice Innovation
Imagine you got grant funding to develop an access to justice research agenda. Your grant application proposes the appointment of a team of law graduates to conduct research within a...
Presumptive Costs Orders: A Threat to Public Interest Interventions (Part II)
In a previous post, I reviewed the terms of the Government’s proposed new costs rule for interventions (cl 67, Criminal Justice and Courts Bill), and queried the Government’s characterization of...
Presumptive Costs Orders: A Threat to Public Interest Interventions (Part I)
The Criminal Justice and Courts Bill received its second reading in the House of Lords on 30 June 2014 and has now been referred to committee stage. Part 4 of...
The Irrelevance of Residence: The Unlawful ‘Residence Test’ for Legal Aid
In R (Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice, the Administrative Court held that the Government’s proposed residence test for legal aid was ultra vires and discriminatory. The...
Chinese Environmental Protection Law – The Illusion of Enhanced Human Rights Safeguards
In April this year, the Chinese legislature amended significantly the Environmental Protection Law adopted in 1989. This post seeks to predict the amendment’s implications on Chinese citizens’ substantive and procedural...
European Legal Aid in a Domestic Framework – Part Two
As hinted in yesterday’s post, under section 4 of LASPO, The Lord Chancellor provided guidance on how to decide exceptional case funding applications made to the Legal Aid Agency. The...
A European Right to Legal Aid? Part One
A key aspect of the Government’s reform agenda regarding civil legal aid is the restriction, set out in Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act...
The London Legal Walk: 10 Successful Years
The London Legal Support Trust (LLST) works to support law centres and legal advice agencies in London and the South East by providing them with grant funding alongside other forms...
Public Interest Lawyering in Times of Austerity
On 24 May 2014, to mark its 14th anniversary, Oxford Pro Bono Publico presented a symposium on the importance of, and challenges to, the practice of contemporary public interest litigation....
The Oxford Legal Assistance Volunteer Partnership Programme with Bail for Immigration Detainees
In the 2013-2014 academic year, following the success of its existing link with award winning legal aid firm Turpin & Miller, Oxford Legal Assistance (‘OLA’) has engaged in a new...
New employment tribunal fees and discrimination: UNISON v Lord Chancellor; Equality and Human Rights Commission
The High Court (Moses LJ, Irwin J) today delivered judgment in the important judicial review proceedings brought by UNISON to challenge the fees regime introduced in the employment tribunal and...
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