APPG on Legal Aid
All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal Aid
Photography by Robert Aberman
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Event: APPG on Legal Aid
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We would recommend that attendees arrive 20 minutes before the meeting is due to start at the main entrance (Cromwell Green), to ensure that you get through security in time.
For a map and public transport information, click here.
For additional information see: www.appg-legalaid.org
The co-sponsors of the APPG areYoung Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) and LAPG.
Previous Meetings:
APPG - London Advice Watch (LAW) 12th Jan 2012
LAG is launched its report London Advice Watch (LAW) at a special meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Legal Aid Group on Thursday 12th January in the Jubilee Room in the House of Commons at 4pm. LAG welcomed London advice agencies and legal aid practitioners to the launch and encouraged them to ask their MP’s and any peers they might have links with to join them at the event.
APPG - LASPO BILL 13th Dec 2011
LASPO Bill and the effect on children
Notes pending.
APPG - Legal Aid Reform 31st Oct 2011
Domestic and Secual violence with the APPG on Legal Aid.
Protection and support for survivors of domestic violence and their children
This meeting provides an opportunity to consider the importance of legal aid for the provision and protection for survivors of domestic violence and their children and the implications of the proposals for legal aid reform.
Hear about the latest research into legal aid and domestic violence carried out by National Federation of Women’s Institutes with specialist domestic violence services and survivors of domestic violence.
Speakers: Ruth Bond
National Federation of Women’s Institutes: Emma Scott
Rights of Women: Survivor testimony
Notes pending.
APPG - LASPO Bill 7th Sept 2011
Update on LASPO Bill and the mandatory telephone gateway proposal
There will be an update on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill and a speaker on the mandatory telephone gateway proposal which in itself will dramatically affect how the most vulnerable will be able to access services in future.
APPG - "The Government Proposal on Legal Aid" 22nd Jun 2011
The Minister for Legal Aid Jonathan Djanogly MP spoke on the government's proposals.
Steve Hynes' (Director, LAG) article July 2011.