The government has U-turned on its decision to deny legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children following a judicial review brought by The Children’s Society.

On 15 March 2022, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab announced long-awaited plans to reform the legal aid system.

In a joint letter to the lord chancellor, legal aid providers have warned that the immigration legal aid system requires systemic change. 

The Ministry of Justice’s approach to cutting legal aid has been criticised by one of its own consultants.

Legal Aid Minister Shailesh Vara has told the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal and Constitutional Affairs that the planned £220 million legal aid cuts will not reduce the quality of lawyers operating in the field.

The Law Society has issued guidance to legal aid solicitors who specialise in criminal law reminding them that they can exercise their discretion when deciding to accept cases if “the work threatens the viability of their firm”.

Legal aid lawyers have been called a “dying breed” after research by the Junior Lawyers Division found that only 4% of young lawyers are interested in working in legal aid.

The Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2015, run by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group have been launched.

Legal aid firms are being urged to claim a potential £100 million in unbilled fees as they try to weather the effects of the coronavirus crisis, a minister reported in early May.

The government has proposed raising civil legal aid fees for the first time in 30 years. While this has been welcomed by the Bar Council and the Law Society, both organisations are concerned that the changes don’t go far enough to match the rise in consumer price index).

During a particularly difficult business law seminar one day, a peer of mine sat next to me, engrossed in his laptop. It wasn't that seminar's corporation tax calculation that had captured his attention, but, instead, the Law Society's legal aid desert maps, which he was exploring on its website – and to which he introduced me.

Lord Neuberger, president of the UK Supreme Court, has said in an interview with the BBC that legal aid cuts could make people feel they cannot access justice and then "take the law into their own hands".

Cuts to legal aid funding have ensured that employers can get away with discrimination toward their employees, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has warned.

A UN envoy appointed to report on extreme poverty and human rights in the UK has criticised the government’s cuts to legal aid, which have deprived poor and disabled people of their rights.

After 40 years, Lambeth Law Centre in South London is the latest to have been forced to close because of cuts to legal aid funding.

Bristol firms Watkins Solicitors and Brain Sinnot & Co have announced that they will merge as "a direct result" of the legal aid cuts which are continuing to hurt firms across the country.

The legal aid cuts are a false economy, an appeal court judge has said in the wake of trials being help up by litigants in person who, understandably, are struggling to represent themselves adequately without the help of trained lawyers.

The Legal Aid Agency has been accused of being in denial about severe glitches in its client management and cost system.

The government's legal aid bill has suffered a third defeat in the House of Lords.