Articles
March 2008 Labour’s handling of legal aid
Article by Madeline Bunting in the Guardian on Monday, 10th March 2008
Copyright The Guardian
Guardian_article_-_Labours_handling_of_legal_aid_Guardian_10.03.08.doc
Letters to the Guardian in response 13th March 2008
Guardian_Letters_13.03.08.doc
March 2008 Legal aid cuts force closure of London Law Centre
Short article in the March edition of the Independent Lawyer
Independent_Lawyer_03.08_Legal_aid_cuts_force_closure_of_London_law_centre.doc
December 2007 The scandal of the assault on legal aid
Article in the Independent 13th December 2007 by Johann Hari
The_Independent_The_scandel_of_the_assault_on_legal_aid_13.12.07.doc
August 2007 Timed Out
Article by Tracy Cook in the Guardian published in the Society pages on 8th August 2007.
Guardian_Timed_out_08.08.07.doc
Letters about the article published in the Guardian Society pages on 15th August.
Guardian_Timed_Out_Letters.doc
July 2007 Legal Clinics in Ontario
Article by Steve Hynes in Legal Action in August 2007. Steve Hynes, director of the Law Centres Federation, was invited to speak at the tenth annual conference of the Association of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario (ACLCO), in Canada, in May 2007. In this article, he describes the similarities and differences between Law Centres® in the UK and their counterparts in Ontario
Legal_Clinics_in_Ontario_August_2007.pdf
July 2007 Law Centres and the History of Legal Aid
Two articles in Socialist Lawyer published by Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers Socialist Lawyer The first article on Law Centres is by Clara Connolly from North Kensington Law Centre and Kathy Meade from Hackney Community Law Centre. The second article on the history of legal aid is by Jamie Ritchie from Brent Community Law Centre.
Socialsit_Lawyer_July_2007.pdf
A longer version of Jamie’s article ‘There was never a golden era of Legal Aid’. is here: Jamie_Ritchie_article_July_07_(longer_version).doc
June 2007 Extending Legal Aid to Tribunals
Article by Steve Hynes and Paul Draycott in Legal Action in June 2007.
Extending_Legal_Aid_to_Tribunals.pdf
April 2007 Legal Aid: The Fight is On
Article in April’s edition of Socialist Lawyer. Socialist Lawyer is published by the Haldane Society.
Socialist_Lawyer_Article_April_2007.pdf
April 2007 What ever happened to justice for all ?
Article in the Independent Lawyer published in April 2007 as part of a Law Centre Special.
April 2007 Life Under the Westway
Article in Independent Lawyer in April 2007 as part of a Law Centre Special edition. The article follows the history of North Kensington Law Centre. the first Law Centre pioneered by Peter Kandler in 1970. Independent_Lawyer_-_Life_under_the_Westway_April_2007.pdf
