Diary of a Legal Aid Lawyer: Strategies for targets and motivation
It’s no secret that life for a legal aid lawyer is very difficult in terms of targets and motivation. As a business, offering legal aid services comes with the knowledge that pay is poor and pro bono work is likely. Nonetheless, a legal aid lawyer does this willingly because we want to ensure the most […]
Domestic abuse victims to be given lifeline payments
Victims of domestic abuse will receive direct payments to help them leave abusive relationships in a new trial as part of the Government’s Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. The £300,000 of funding is being provided to Women’s Aid and will provide one-off payments of £250 (rising to £500 where a victim has children) to help victims […]
Building families through surrogacy: A new law
The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission, on the 29th March, released their report and draft bill detailing a new pathway for intended parents creating their families through surrogacy. As expected, a new pathway will be created for British Intended Parents (IPs) to become the legal parents of their surrogate […]
Domestic Abuse Commissioner: The time for lip service is over
Domestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs has responded to Baroness Louise Casey’s review into the Metropolitan Police’s culture, standards, and behaviour. Here’s what she had to say. “The experiences of victims and survivors laid out in this report are profoundly appalling and incredibly harrowing. They reflect what we hear from survivors daily especially minoritised survivors who […]
