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  • 30 Jul 2011
    Legal Davids and Goliaths

    Thirty-three Peruvian farmers have recently received out-of-court settlements for the alleged torture they suffered after protesting against a UK mining company’s proposals to set up camp on their land.

  • 4 Jul 2011
    Legal aid bill threatens access to justice

    The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill passing through the UK Parliament has been widely criticised. It aims to cut the cost of legal aid by making it far less widely available. But critics have pointed out that this will result in injustice to all but the rich, and have drastic longer-term costs.

  • 7 Jun 2011
    Pressure continues over 'devastating' proposed legal aid cuts

    Civil rights and legal groups are pressing the government hard on plans to cut legal aid and deny justice to thousands of poor and vulnerable people.

  • 30 Sep 2010
    High Court says plans that threaten family legal aid are 'unlawful'

    The Law Society has claimed a victory for families after the High Court quashed the outcome of the tender round for new family legal aid contracts.

  • 3 Sep 2010
    Churches warn on legal aid cuts punishing the most vulnerable

    With cuts in civil legal aid due to hit asylum seekers and other vulnerable groups, the Methodist Church has urged the government to rethink.

  • 10 Mar 2008
    What price justice?

    Relatively few people in Britain are aware of the extent to which the government's 'reform' of legal aid is undermining justice for those at the margins of society. It's time that changed.