With austerity measures in full swing, the government's decision to review the duty on state and government bodies to proactively tackle women's inequality in the UK has raised alarm bells amongst leading women's rights organisations
A criminal barrister makes a shocking discovery about the Ministry of Justice mandarins who are wrecking Legal Aid.
Will new restrictions on Judicial Review prevent campaigners from following in the footsteps of Lewisham and Gloucestershire NHS campaigners, in overturning hospital cuts and privatisations?
Proposals to cut legal aid and judicial review in Britain will make it harder for people fighting for their rights to challenge the government's cuts agenda, and will remove one of the few lifelines to justice for asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented workers, says Kate Blagojevic.
The latest move in the swift and radical marketisation of British justice: the government is privatising the enforcement of criminal fines. Critics say this will push more vulnerable people into the hands of rogue bailiffs.
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A barrister considers how a slave would have fared under the British government’s proposed legal aid residence test.
Labour’s shadow Lord Chancellor Sadiq Khan spoke out strongly for universal human rights, the Human Rights Act and checks on government powers. Will his party colleagues, and possibly their potential allies after 2015, the Lib Dems, be as bold if they are in power?
• Justice minister making savage cuts lined his pockets from Parliamentary expenses • MPs grill Chris Grayling over plans to destroy Legal Aid • Grayling acknowledges 'ideological' motivation.
A debate the government did not want to happen. House of Commons resists Coalition attack on Legal Aid.
Looting and pillaging. Economic illiteracy. Craven cowardice. A response to the government's attack on legal aid.
On the government's reviled proposals for 'reform' of Legal Aid.
