There were a number of musical interludes at the Rally for Legal Aid yesterday, including this song written especially for the occasion by Tom Robinson.

A few of the lines might be uncomfortable hearing […]

“I’m just some idiot really,” she began. But the comedian Josie Long explained that she wanted to speak in support of legal aid because “this is something that affects everybody in this country”. […]

The Executive Director of Just for Kids Law Shauneen Lambe told the Rally for Legal Aid yesterday that she’s “scared […]

One of the speakers at yesterday’s Rally for Legal Aid was “Sally” – the mother of a rape victim, as the flyer for the rally described her. For understandable personal (and legal) […]

The BBC Panorama reporter Raphael Rowe told yesterday’s Rally for Legal Aid that the BBC and other news organisations are “not doing anything to look at the legal aid system”, and that that’s […]

Labour’s Shadow Lord Chancellor Sadiq Khan MP relished attacking Chris Grayling in his “Rally for Legal Aid” speech outside the Old Bailey yesterday. Grayling, he said, was a man with no idea of […]

Here’s Shami Chakrabarti’s speech at yesterday’s “Rally for Legal Aid” outside the Old Bailey. Hers was the best speech of the day, I thought, telling her listeners about a country “not so very […]

The government has said it will support Lord Sharkey’s bill aimed at giving a posthumous statutory pardon to Alan Turing for an offence under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment […]

Last night the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament, passed the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill. Here’s the text, which must now be considered by the Seanad. If voted through there, it will come into law […]

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the system of “whole life orders”, whereby in England and Wales a mandatory life sentence may be imposed and the possibility of early release denied under section 269(4) of […]