The Criminal Bar Association’s acceptance of an invitation to speak at the government’s Global Law Summit next month is “pandering” to the Lord Chancellor’s “political opportunism”, John Cooper QC said today […]

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 […]

Yesterday I spoke to Paul Mendelle QC, joint head of chambers at 25 Bedford Row and former chair of the Criminal Bar Association, about the government’s proposals on criminal legal […]

Here’s another speech from Tuesday’s legal aid demonstration – this time from Labour’s shadow justice minister, Andy Slaughter.

I think those interested in the debate about legal aid are not only entitled to, […]