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Law Centre news

• Law Centres Federation welcomes new partnership for Law Centres
  The Law Centres Federation (LCF) today welcomed Lord Bach’s announcement of a new pilot which will help to strengthen all Law Centres’ ability to assist vulnerable people.
• Families reunited after Kingston and Richmond Law Centre’s Supreme Court win
  Supreme Court victory will have far-reaching effects for people settled in the UK who hope to bring dependent family members from overseas to live with them.
• LCF and other organisations call for Justice to be put centre stage in the General Election Campaign
  The broad and influential coalition of eight leading legal and campaigning organisations calls on politicians to put justice centre stage in the forthcoming General Election campaign.
• Devon Law Centre awarded the Law Centres Innovation Award 2009 for the Asylum Appellate Project
  The project aims to show that reform of the legal aid system is needed for asylum seekers to get access to justice.
• Court of Appeal upholds landmark disability access case
  Disabled man wins fight for access to his local branch of Royal Bank of Scotland. Bank must now install access for wheelchair users.
• 18-year-old disabled man takes on Royal Bank of Scotland in landmark appeal case
  An 18-year-old man will take his fight for access to his local branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to the Court of Appeal today, Tuesday 10 November.
• LCF Conference and AGM 2009 Update
  Find out more about this year's conference - "Law Centres Transforming Lives: Delivering Justice, Restoring Hope" - as well as details related to the Annual General Meeting that is part of it.
• LCF launches joint campaign for access to justice for young people
  Children and young people denied their rights as over one million fail to get legal advice every year
• LCF statement on Ministry of Justice legal aid consultation
  The Ministry of Justice today published proposals for changes to criminal legal aid and for measures to protect funding for civil legal aid.
• LCF statement on the closure of Cambridge and Huntingdon Law Centres
  Advice for Life, a charity which ran Cambridge Law Centre and Huntingdon Law Centre, has gone into liquidation. As a result, both Law Centres have closed.
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